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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The conflict with slavery (search)
ere is nothing fanatical, nothing unconstitutional, and nothing unchristian in that method. In the mean time, gentlemen, I am your friend and well-wisher. Haverhill, Mass., 22d 7th Mo., 1833. II. The abolitionists of the North have been grossly misrepresented. In attacking the system of slavery, they have never recommendpon the earth, so Truth be among them, we need not fear. Let her and Falsehood grapple; whoever knew her to be put to the worst in a free and open encounter Haverhill, MAss., 29th of 7th Mo., 1833. Letter to Samuel E. Sewall. Haverhill, 10th of 1st Mo., 1834. Samuel E. Sewall, Esq., Secretary New England A. S. SocietHaverhill, 10th of 1st Mo., 1834. Samuel E. Sewall, Esq., Secretary New England A. S. Society: dear friend,—I regret that circumstances beyond my control will not allow of my attendance at the annual meeting of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. I need not say to the members of that society that I am with them, heart and soul, in the cause of abolition; the abolition not of physical slavery alone, abhorrent and m
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
ssing the Merrimac River, and of the first encampment on the other side, were even said to be fixed upon. When we consider that there could not have been more than a score of slaves in the settlement, the excitement into which the inhabitants were thrown by this absurd rumor of conspiracy seems not very unlike that of a convocation of small planters in a backwoods settlement in South Carolina on finding an anti-slavery newspaper in their weekly mail bag. In 1709 Colonel Saltonstall, of Haverhill, had several negroes, and among them a high-spirited girl, who, for some alleged misdemeanor, was severely chastised. The slave resolved upon revenge for her injury, and soon found the means of obtaining it. The Colonel had on hand, for service in the Indian war then raging, a considerable store of gunpowder. This she placed under the room in which her master and mistress slept, laid a long train, and dropped a coal on it. She had barely time to escape to the farm-house before the explos