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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 1 : Theodore Roosevelt and the Abolitionists (search)
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 2 : the Abolitionists — who and what they were (search)
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 3 : one of their traits (search)
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 4 : pro-slavery prejudice (search)
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 5 : the political situation (search)
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 6 : Anti-slavery pioneers (search)
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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 7 : Salmon Portland Chase (search)
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 8 : John Quincy Adams (search)
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 9 : Anti-slavery societies (search)
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 10 : wanted, an Anti-slavery society (search)
Chapter 10: wanted, an Anti-slavery society
The National Anti-Slavery Society--the society organized by Garrison and his confreres, and which longest maintained its organization — made one great mistake.
It disbanded.
It assumed that its work was done when African slavery in this country was pronounced defunct by law. It took it for granted that the enslavement of the colored man — not necessarily the negro — was no longer possible under the Stars and Stripes.
Then and there it committed a grievous blunder.
Its paramount error was in assuming that a political party could for all time be depended upon as a party of freedom.
It trusted to the assurances of politicians that they would protect the colored man in all his natural and acquired rights, and in that belief voluntarily gave up the ghost and cast its mantle to the winds.
Now, the fact is that the National Anti-Slavery Society was never more needed than it is to-day.
There is a mighty work to be done that was directl<