Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. MR. WILSON S PASTORS. AN ADDRESS. HIS MARRIAGE.— HIS HOME. — TEMPERANCE. HARRISON CAMPAIGN. HIS COURSE IN THE GENERAL COURT. The Rev. E. D. Moore: his Views, and Regard for Mr. Wilson. —The Rev. Samuel Hunt: his Influence. — Bible-Class. — Presentation of a Watch.— Marriage. — Mrs. Wilson's Character. — Her Influence over her Husband. — Their House and Home. — Birth of a Son. — Mr. Wilson's Regard for Temperance.— Speech. — Candidate for General Court. — Defeated on the Fifteen-gallon Law. —Enters the Harrison Campaign. — General Enthusiasm of the People. — He makes his first Political Speech. — Addresses more than Sixty Audiences. — His Manner. — Elected to General Court. — Story of the Farmer. — His Industry. — His Views of Slavery. — Advocates Repeal of Law against Intermarriage of Blacks and Whites. — Defeated as Candidate for Senate. — Elected to that Body the Next Year, and for 1845. — Contends for the Right of Colored Children to a Seat in the Public Schools. — Remarks thereon. — Advance in Public Sentiment. — Mr. Wilson's Mission. BY the dismissal of Rev. E. D. Moore from his pastb- ral office at Natick, and by his consequent departure from that town, Mr. Wilson lost the daily counsel and encouragement of a sincere and valuable friend, who sympathized with him in his political views, and had confidence in his ultimate success. The kindest social relations still subsist between these two gentlemen ; and it is doubtless gratifying in a high degree to Mr. Wilson's earliest living pastor to see his expectations in regard to one of his society in Natick so fully realized. The Rev. Samuel Hunt, an able minister and a steady advocate of human freedom, succeeded.Mr. Moore in July, 1839, and continued as Mr. Wilson's pastor until 1850. He also felt a ...