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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amistad, case of the. (search)
Amistad, case of the. A Portuguese slaver landed a cargo of kidnapped Africans near Havana; a few days afterwards they were placed on board the Amistad to be taken to Principe. On the voyage the negroes, led by Cinque, captured the vessel, but killed only the captain and the cook. They then ordered the white crew to take the ship to Africa; but the sailors brought her into American waters, where she was seized by Lieutenant Geding. of the United States brig Washington, and brought into New London, Conn., Aug. 29, 1839. A committee, consisting of S. S. Jocelyn, Joshua Leavitt, and Lewis Tappan, was appointed in New York to solicit funds and employ counsel to protect the rights of the negroes. After a great struggle the court, through Justice Story, pronounced them free. Their return to Africa founded the Mendi mission.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Leavitt, Joshua 1794-1873 (search)
Leavitt, Joshua 1794-1873 Editor; born in Heath, Mass., Sept. 8, 1794; graduated at Yale in 1814; admitted to the bar in 1819, but shortly abandoned his profession to study theology at the Yale Divinity School. He was the editor of the Sailor's magazine, New York, and was the editor and proprietor of the Evangelist, a religious newspaper which he established in 1831. Mr. Leavitt was an ardent abolitionist and temperance advocate. He was one of the founders of the New York Anti-Slavery He was the editor of the Sailor's magazine, New York, and was the editor and proprietor of the Evangelist, a religious newspaper which he established in 1831. Mr. Leavitt was an ardent abolitionist and temperance advocate. He was one of the founders of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, and was the editor of the Emancipator and of the Chronicle, the first daily anti-slavery paper. In 1848 he became a part proprietor and editor of the Independent. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1873.
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 23: Rolls of honor (search)
Samuel Johnson, C. L. Redmond, James Monroe, A. T. Foss, William Wells Brown, Henry C. Wright, G. D. Hudson, Sallie Holley, Anna E. Dickinson, Aaron M. Powell, George Brodburn, Lucy Stone, Edwin Thompson, Nathaniel W. Whitney, Sumner Lincoln, James Boyle, Giles B. Stebbins, Thomas T. Stone, George M. Putnam, Joseph A. Howland, Susan B. Anthony, Frances E. Watkins, Loring Moody, Adin Ballou, W. H. Fish, Daniel Foster, A. J. Conover, James N. Buffum, Charles C. Burleigh, William Goodell, Joshua Leavitt, Charles M. Denison, Isaac Hopper, Abraham L. Cox. To the above should be added the names of Alvin Stewart of New York, who issued the call for the convention that projected the Liberty party, and of John Kendrick, who executed the first will including a bequest in aid of the Abolition cause. And here must not be omitted the name of John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, who was a candidate for the Presidency on the Liberty party ticket, and also a conspicuous member of the U. S. Senate.
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Index (search)
203. Joselyn, Simeon, 203. Julian, Geo. W., Political Recollections, 177. K Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 44. Kedzie, James, 208-2 10. Kelly, Abby, 38-39. Kendrick, John, 205. Kentucky, 21. Kimball, David T., Jr., 202. King, Leicester, 205. Kingsley, Alpheus, 203. Knapp, Isaac, 201. Know-Nothings, 9. L Lafayette, 7. Lane, James H., 194-197; canvas for U. S. Senator, 196-197; attitude on slavery, 197. Lawrence, city of, capture by Quantrell, 165; butchery of inhabitants, 165. Leavitt, Joshua, 205. Lewis, Evan, 203. Lewis, Samuel, 205. Liberal party, 2, 3, 7, 8, 65. Liberator, 21; first issue, 55; South Carolina and Georgia offers reward for its circulation, 55-56; excluded from U. S. mails, 56; office wrecked by mob, 56; opposed to separate party action, 64. Lincoln, Abraham, 2, 8, 11, 41; election of, 11, 48; Gettysburg speech, 88; and Douglas, 94-99; debate of 1858, 94; and slavery, 96, 97; preferred by slaveholders, 98; Recollections of, 134-135; and emancipation,
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 7: master strokes. (search)
iety. Mr. Greenleaf [Simon] also, will cordially come in, and I need not say he is one of the first [men] in the State, for his character is known. This quotation is made from a letter of General Samuel Fessenden, of Portland, Me., to Mr. Garrison, dated December 14. 1832. Among the remarkable minds which the Thoughts disillusioned in respect of the character and tendency of the Colonization Society were Theodore D. Weld, Elizur Wright, and Beriah Green, N. P. Rogers, William Goodell, Joshua Leavitt, Amos A. Phelps, Lewis Tappan, and James Miller McKim. Garrison's assertion that the overthrow of the Colonization Society was the overthrow of slavery itself, was, from the standpoint of a student of history, an exaggerated one. We know now that the claim was not founded on fact, that while they did stand together they did not fall together. But the position was, nevertheless, the strongest possible one for the anti-slavery movement to occupy at the time. In the disposition of the
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 17: as in a looking glass. (search)
t of his kind. His narrow intolerance of the idea of anti-slavery political action, and his fierce and unjust censure of the champions of that idea, well illustrate the trait in point. Birney and Whittier, and Wright and Gerrit Smith, and Joshua Leavitt, he apparently quite forgot, were actuated by motives singularly noble, were in their way as true to their convictions as he was to his. No, there was but one right way, and in that way stood the feet of the pioneer. His way led directly, un drawn between the Liberator and Emancipator with regard to the manner of getting it up, and to have not to deny but to excuse them-ani we knowing all the time that you have all the tact and technical talent for getting up a good newspaper that Leavitt has, with as much more, intellectual ability as you have more moral honesty, and only wanting some of his (pardon me) industry, application, and method. Garrison, to his honor, did not allow the exceeding candor of his mentor to disturb thei
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Index. (search)
, 61. Hovey, Charles F., 389. Jackson, Francis, 233, 240-241, 311-312, 317, 341, 344. Jewett, Daniel E., 175. Jocelyn, Rev. Simeon Smith, 203. Johnson, Andrew, 380. Johnson, Oliver, 114, 134, 137, 139, 16o-16I, 374. journal, Camden (S. C.), 128. Journal, Louisville (Ky.), 120. Kansas, Struggle over, 357-358. Kelley, Abby, 259, 291, 310. Kimball, David T., 175. Knapp, Isaac, 113, 127, 139, 197, 200, 265, 301-302. Kneeland, Abner, 90, 268. Lane Seminary, 189. Latimer, George, 312. Leavitt, Joshua, 149,320. 329. Leggett, Samuel. 86. Liberator, The, III-20, 126-29, 131, 141, 163, 165, 169, 176, 197-204, 236, 237, 265, 284, 297, 327-329, 388. Lincoln, Abraham, 365, 370, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 382, 384. Lloyd, Fanny, 13-20, 24-26, 44-45. Longfellow, Stephen, 148. Loring, Edward Greeley. 354. Loring, Ellis Grey, 134, 135 136, 138, 245, 264. Lovejoy, Elijah P., 254-257. Lowell, James Russell, 136, 329. Lumpkin, Wilson, 128. Lundy, Benjamin,44, 45, 46, 48-54, 57,
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
attend, let your soul speak out as God shall give it utterance—and think not of me as your brotherin-law, but only of our glorious cause. You are, happily, too well known to be charged with being swerved or biased by our connexion. Bro. May and Phelps will be there—the Grimkes —Alvan Stewart, An eminent lawyer of Utica, N. Y., who took a leading part in the formation of the State Anti-Slavery Society in 1835 (ante, p. 42). He was not present at Worcester, nor was Gerrit Smith. The Rev. Joshua Leavitt, editor of the Emancipator, alone represented the American Society. and perhaps Gerrit Smith, and many others. The meeting will probably hold two days, but perhaps only one. . . . The course of reasoning marked out in your letter, to be given at Worcester, is very good and conclusive. I have not time or room to suggest any points. As I shall not go to Worcester myself, perhaps I may find time to send you a few suggestions by bro. Phelps. Mr. Garrison's scruples about attendin<
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 5: shall the Liberator lead—1839. (search)
inted. This action was a great surprise, since the Board had made, through Joshua Leavitt and through H. B. Stanton (who had, before the annual meeting, been sent onding secretaries for the ensuing year. Elizur Wright's place was filled by Joshua Leavitt, who had behaved in an honorable manner Lib. 9.83. towards Mr. Garrison aous improvement of the people of color, also enjoined by the Constitution? Joshua Leavitt's candid view in opposition to Birney may be read in Lib. 9: 63; and see Mrook the committee of arrangements Lib. 9.127. (embracing Goodell, Stanton and Leavitt) to task for their unprecedented and proscriptive phraseology, for which therealready prepared to support Lib. 9.198. the movement, See his letter to Joshua Leavitt (Lib. 10.17), reviewing Lewis Tappan's and Gamaliel Bailey's objections, anentually tried before Andrew T. Judson, excited extraordinary interest, and Joshua Leavitt and Lewis Tappan were conspicuous in befriending the captives (Lib. 9.143,
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 6: the schism.—1840. (search)
43. Goodell, and William Jay), were feelingly retorted by Leavitt in the Emancipator, by Goodell in the Friend of Lib. 10.4s. Lib. 10.75. Though rebuked by the Executive Committee, Leavitt renewed his attack on the address and on the Lib. 10.47,198; Life of Myron Holley, p. 259. of the vice-presidents, Leavitt one of the secretaries; Holley and Elizur Wright members ode, before the close of April, by sale Lib. 10.71. to Joshua Leavitt, on account of the New York City Lib. 10.75. Anti-Slal A. S. Standard, Sept. 19, Oct. 24, Nov. 7, 1844, and Joshua Leavitt's statement in Mass. Abolitionist, 2.112. Wendell Phupon his inconsistency. He is determined, like E. Wright, Leavitt & Co., to lay all the opposition to the political party schis former position, but I have them not by me. Lee and Leavitt are expected in Philadelphia to attend the Luther Lee, J.J. Leavitt. meeting of the State Society. I rather think it will be a stormy time if they come. Whittier is here, and will b
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