Identifier: storyofhutchinso01inhutc (find matches)
Title: Story of the Hutchinsons (tribe of Jesse)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hutchinson, John W. (John Wallace), 1821-1908 Mann, Charles E. (Charles Edward), b. 1857 Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Hutchinson family Hutchinson Family (Singers) Singers Abolitionists
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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. VTe saw the great in Church and State,In all their pomp wnd pride.The little queen who reigns supreme, Her lords and dukes beside.But dazzling sights brought no delightWhen the poor were crushed so low,In the days we passed through England, boys,Long time ago. DuEiXG the spring and summer of 1845, we had beensinging through the towns of New Hampshire, andwere in hopes of having a vacation, and to pass it infishing and rustic enjoyments. We were, in the earlypart of August, giving some concerts in ^Massachusetts ;and in Lynn on the llth, we met Frederick Douglassand James N. Buffum. an anti-slaveiy sympathizer ofthat town, who, having purchased their tickets, andmade arrangements for a trip to Europe, were expectingto sail on the 16th on the steamship Cambria of theCunard line. They urged u> to go with them; and aswe had been contemplating a tour of England for sometime, it did not take much persuasion to induce us togo: we straightway began to make preparations for oiirdeparture.
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IN ENGLAND. 143 We returned to our home in New Hampshire to takeleave of our dear ones, which we did not find a veryeasy matter. They all said Dont go, dont go ; andwhen mother found we were bound to go and takeAbby with us, she was almost heart-broken, for a jour-ney to England in those days was looked upon as beingattended with more danger than at present, and theyAvere all afraid they would never see us again. Butthey being finally reconciled, we set to work in earnest, astime was short. We had to raise about tAvo thousanddollars, which we finally succeeded in doing, and we wereready to start. As we had to give a concert in Glouces-ter on the evening of the •14th, we left home early onthe morning of that day for Lynn, where we took a car-riage to meet our engagement, accompanied by our sis-ter Rhoda and Harriet Jackson, daughter of our anti-slavery friend, Francis Jackson. I had not slept anythe night before, being kept awake by the entreaties ofmy wife to stay at home, and Avas

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