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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 1: no union with non-slaveholders!—1861. (search)
e possession of the Government by a coup daetat, which we have long prophesied would be their last desperate effort to keep the reins of power in their own grasp, and which we have no doubt will be successful, in spite of all the precautions of Gen. Scott. Winfield Scott. In this state of things,—when the elements are melting with fervent heat, and thunders are uttering their voices, and a great earthquake is shaking the land from centre to circumference, threatening to engulf whatever freeWinfield Scott. In this state of things,—when the elements are melting with fervent heat, and thunders are uttering their voices, and a great earthquake is shaking the land from centre to circumference, threatening to engulf whatever free institutions are yet visible,—Mr. Seward, with the eyes of expectant millions fastened upon him as the pilot to weather the storm, rises in the Senate to utter well-turned periods in glorification of a Union no longer in existence, and to talk of meeting prejudice with conciliation, exaction with concession which surrenders no principle (!), and violence with the right hand of peace ! The tiger is to be propitiated by crying pussy-cat! and leviathan drawn out with a hook! The word treason or<