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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
d holding them up to general execration and abuse. But this sort of libel was the natural utterance of every respectable Whig Bostonian when alluding to the abolitionists. Take, for example, that future ornament of the Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, who wrote to Mr. George Ticknor, then abroad, under date of August 23, 1835: The topic which engrosses the public attention, to the Memoir of B. R. Curtis, 1.72. exclusion of almost every other, is the Anti-slavery Society. YoB. R. Curtis, 1.72. exclusion of almost every other, is the Anti-slavery Society. You will see by the newspapers, which I suppose you receive, that a great meeting has been held at Faneuil Hall on this subject. It was caused by the excitement which exists through all the slaveholding States, in consequence of the efforts of that Society to excite the slaves to insurrection. Dreadful scenes have already occurred in Mississippi. The mob have hung numerous persons, suspected of being emissaries of the Society, without legal trial; and so great have been the commotions excited i