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Abolitionists.
The first society established for promoting public sentiment in favor of the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia on April 14, 1775, with Benjamin Franklin as president and Benjamin Rush as secretary.
John Jay was the first president of a society for the same purpose formed in New York, Jan. 25, 1785, and called the New York manumission Society.
The Society of Friends, or Quakers, always opposed slavery, and were a perpetual and active abolition society, presenti ed the Constitution, refused to vote, and woman's rights, free love, community of property, and all sorts of novel social ideas were espoused by them.
In 1838 the political abolitionists, including Birney, the Tappans, Gerrit Smith, Whittier.
Judge Jay, Edward Beecher, Thomas Morris, and others seceded, and in 1840 organized the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and under this name prosecuted their work with more success than the original society.
In 1839-40 the liberty party (q. v
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , John Quincy , 1767 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ames , Fisher , 1758 -1808 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carmichael , William 1776 -1795 (search)
Carmichael, William 1776-1795
Diplomatist; born in Maryland, date uncertain; was a man of fortune.
He was in Europe in 1776, and assisted Silas Deane in his political and commercial operations in France.
He also assisted the American commissioners in Paris.
In 1778-80 he was in Congress, and was secretary of legation to Jay's mission to Spain.
When the latter left Europe (1782) Carmichael remained as charge d'affaires, and retained the office for several years.
In 1792 he was associated with William Short on a commission to negotiate with Spain a treaty concerning the navigation of the Mississippi.
Sparks's Diplomatic correspondence contains many of his letters.
He died in February, 1795.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cushing , William 1732 -1810 (search)
Cushing, William 1732-1810
Jurist; born in Scituate, Mass., March 1, 1732; graduated at Harvard University in 1751; studied law; became eminent in his profession; was attorney-general of Massachusetts; a judge of probate in 1768; judge of the Superior Court in 1772; and in 1777 succeeded his father as chief-justice of that court.
Under the Massachusetts constitution of 1788 he was made chief-justice of the State; and in 1789 President Washington appointed him a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
He offered him the chief-justiceship in 1796, as the successor of Jay, but he declined it. He administered the oath of office to Washington in his second inauguration.
He died in Scituate, Sept. 13, 1810.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Depew , Chauncey Mitchell , 1834 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglas , Stephen Arnold , 1813 -1861 (search)