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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 6: removal to Brunswick, 1850-1852. (search)
. No stronger utterances against this national sin are to be found anywhere than in the letters and published writings of Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry. Jefferson encountered difficulties greater than he could overcome, and after vain wrestlings the words that broke from him, I tremble for my country wheoration on Lincoln. Hamilton was one of the founders of the Manumission Society, the object of which was the abolition of slaves in the State of New York. Patrick Henry, speaking of slavery, said: A serious view of this subject gives a gloomy prospect to future times. Slavery was thought by the founders of our Republic to be ied to the burning question of negro slavery. It sets forth those principles of the Declaration of Independence that made Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, and Patrick Henry anti-slavery men; not in the language of the philosopher, but in a series of pictures. Mrs. Stowe spoke to the understanding and moral sense through the imagi
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
s, H. B. S. on, 205. Semi-Colon Club, H. B. S. becomes a member of, 68. Shaftesbury, Earl of, letter of, to Mrs. Stowe, 170. Shaftesbury, Lord, to H. B. S., letter from, 170; letter from H. B. S. to, 170; America and, 369. Skinner, Dr., 57. Slave, aiding a fugitive, 93. Slave-holding States on English address, 378; intensity of conflict in, 379. Slavery, H. B. S.'s first notice of, 71; anti-slavery agitation, 81; deathknell of, 141; Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry on, 141; growth of, 142; resume of its history, 143; responsibility of church for, 151; Lord Carlisle's opinion on, 164; moral effect of, 165; sacrilege of, 193; its past and future, 194; its injustice, 255; its death-blow; 370; English women's appeal against, 375; J. Q. Adams' crusade against, 509; gone forever, 506. Slaves, H. B. S.'s work for and sympathy with, 152; family sorrows of, 318. Smith, Anna, helper to Mrs. S., 115; note, 200. Soul, immortality of, H. B. S.'s essay