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the acquaintance of the cultivateil liicksite
Quakers, and his faith in both Methodism
and slavery was somewhat impaired. He
also became a student of the works of Em-
erson, with whom he corresponded. In 1852
he was appointed to a circuit in Frederick
county, Maryland, but soon resigned to enter
the Unitarian Divinity School at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, from which he received his
B. D. degree (1854). He was a minister of
the Unitarian church at Washington, D. C.,
from 1854 to 1857, when his anti-slavery
discourses caused a division in the society.
I' or a time he preached to those who adhered
tc him. but finding the two sides willing to
unite on Mr. Channing as a successor, lie
accepted an invitation from the First Con-
gregational Church in Cincinnati. Here
hi.'-, first book appeared. "Tracts for To-chy"
(1858). In i860 he founded the "Dial" in
Cincinnati, to which Emerson contributed.
C)n the breaking out of the civil war, Mr.
Conwav went through Ohio, delivering ad-
dresses in favor of emancipation as the true
weapon of liberty and union, and meeting,
at times, rough, opposition. In 1861 he pub-
lished his views in a little book, "The Re-
jected Stone," which gained a wide circu-
lation. It was followed (1862) by "The
Golden Hour. ' Mr. Conway was invited to
oive a lecture on the subject at the Smith-
cnian Institution, and he also delivered a
sermon in the senate chamber. About this
same time, his father's slaves being within
the lines of the Federal army of the I'oto-
r:ac, he gathered them together and colo-
nized them in Ohio. In 1863 he was chosen
editor of the Boston "Commonwealth," es-
tidjlished in the interest of emancipation.
He visited England in 1863, and there gave
many addresses on the issue in America,
wrote papers in "Fraser" and the "Fort-
nightly," and published his "Testimonies
Concerning Slavery" (1864). Under in-
structions from the abolitionists of America
he made overtures to James M. Mason, the
Confederate commissioner, to ef?ect the in-
dependence of the south on condition of its
abolishing slavery. Accepting an invitation
to the South Place chapel, London, he was
itp minister until 1S84. but always retained
his .American citizenship. Mt. Conway was
a member of several learned societies in
London, and lectured occasionally at the
Royal Institution. In 1885 he returned to
the United States, and became a resident of
New York City. Besides many printed dis-
courses, a large number of magazine articles
and letters to the New York "Tribune" and
the Cincinnati "Commercial," of which
papers he was successively the London cor-
respondent, Mr. Conway has published the
ft.llowing works in England and America:
"The Earthward Pilgrimage" (1870); "Re-
publican Superstitions" (1872) ; "The Sacred
Anthology" (1876); "Idols and Ideals"
(1877) ; "Demonology and Devil-Lore"
(1879); "A Necklace of Stories" (1880);
"Thomas Carlyle" (1881) ; "The Wandering
Jew" (1881); "Travels in South Kensing-
ton" ( 1882) ; "Emerson at Home and
Abroad" (1882): "Pine and Palm. A
Novel" (1887) ; "Life of Edmund Randolph"
(1888) "George Washington and Mount
\'ernon" (1889): "Life of Hawthorne"
( 1890) : "Prisons of .Air. A Novel" (1891) ;
"Life of Thomas Paine" (1892), and many
later works. In 1858 Mr. Conway married
Miss Ellen Davis Dana. He died in Paris.
France. November 13. T907.
Darling, James Sands, born in New York City. February 3, 1832, son of Hamilton
