Article August 13, 1938 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Peace through Right Thinking

with contributions from Lewis Gannett, Gardiner Pollich, Mary E. Woolley, Karl B. Alexander, Arthur H. Ryan, E. S. Clark

[Lewis Gannett, in a review of the "Memoirs of Julian Hawthorne" (Macmillan), in the Herald-Tribune, New York, New York]

These are the recollections of an old man who, as a child, bodys, lived in a world inhabited by Emersons, Alcotts, Peabodys, and Hoars, and assumed the whole world to be composed of just such remarkable characters. ...

One story of Emerson in wartime I have never met before, ... and it is magnificent. Concord had summoned a town meeting to discuss rumors that there were traitors—"Copperheads"—in the village. A wild-eyed ranter shouted that the rascals in their midst should be hanged to the lamp posts; and people in the meeting turned to look at one man who sat with head bowed while his daughter sobbed beside him, knowing well that he was the one Concordian who had dounted the justice of the Northern cause. The South was hanging Negroes, shouted the orator; let the North give the Copperheads a taste of their own medicine.

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