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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 5: the crisis (search)
d terrible, leading to greater things. The Boston mob gives a barometrical record of conditions in the North in 1835. Every village had its Garrison, its Mayor Lyman, its Francis Jackson. Moved by the spectacle of Garrison's persecution, Charles Sumner, Henry I. Bowditch, and Wendell Phillips became converts to the cause. Every village in the North after October 21, produced its Bowditch, its Sumner, its Phillips. There were now six State and three hundred auxiliary Anti-slavery societiesSumner, its Phillips. There were now six State and three hundred auxiliary Anti-slavery societies, all formed since 1831. So then, comments Garrison, we derive from our opponents these instructive but paradoxical facts---that without numbers, we are multitudinous; that without power, we are sapping the foundations of the Confederacy; that without a plan, we are hastening the abolition of slavery; and without reason or talent we are rapidly converting the nation. For the second time within three months it became wise for Garrison to leave Boston. His landlord, quite naturally, feared for
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 6: Retrospect and prospect. (search)
your honor require? Nothing less than a bill of sale from God Almighty. This story gives the two elements, pity and business interest, expressed in terms of constitutional argument. It summarizes the labors of our statesmen,--Webster, Calhoun, Sumner, Taney, Douglas, Lincoln,--each of whom had his bout with the problem. The unfortunate American statesmen who were obliged to formulate a philosophy upon the matter seem to me like that procession of hypocrites in Dante's Purgatory, robed in manivate breasts, was at length seen in the formation of the Republican Party. By the time that party was formed one could distinguish (as Mr. Rhodes points out), two classes of men among its members:the men actuated by pity for the slave, of whom Sumner was the type; and the men actuated by resentment at being ruled from the South, of whom Seward was the type. It was, however, the Abolition tom-tom that had called both classes from the deep; and the Seward class was but an imperfect, half-awake
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
188; complicity of churches with, 200; Emerson and, 228; history of, review, 253 if.; influence of, North and South, 254. And see Colonization Society, Crandall, P., Lane Seminary, Lovejoy, E. P. Slavery in West Indies, abolition of, 244. Smith, Goldwin, 251. South Carolina, 23, 137. Spencer, Herbert, 251. Sprague, Peleg, quoted, 95, 96; at Faneuil Hall, IiO, III. Storrs, George, 107, 108. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 120, 187, 188. Sturgis, William, 132. Sumner, Charles, 123, 140. Sumter, Fort, fired on, 259. Taney, Roger B., 140. Tappan, Arthur, 47, 67, 72,106, 107. Taylor, Zachary, 200, 209, 210, 21I. Texas, Annexation of, 138, 139, 155, 174, 238, 256. Thatcher, Judge, 50. Thompson, George, in U. S., 92 ff.; S. J. May and Sprague quoted on, 93-96; what he stood for, 96; plot to tar and feather, 113; 107, 118, 227, 245,247, 251. Ticknor, George, 199. Tocsin of Liberty, the, quoted, 178. Todd, Francis, libeled by G., 46, 47. Tucke