[Nathaniel] Hawthorne's steadfast support for his old schoolmate Franklin Pierce had enraged abolitionists, whose cause suffered major setbacks during his presidency, so much so that Lydia Maria Child thought his name should be pronounced to rhyme with "curse."
Bruce A. Ronda, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer on Her Own Terms.
H/T Caleb Crain at Steamboats are ruining everything.
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