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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 2 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 3, Chapter 14: the Nebraska Bill.—1854. (search)
ssioned eloquence by Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker, urging everything short of violent resistance to the rendition of Burns; how a magnanimous attack was simultaneously Not consequently. The attack was planned deliberately, cautiously, and (as the almost success proved) most judiciously (Ms. June 28, 1854, T. W. Higginson to W. L. G.). made upon the Lib. 28.43. Court house, ending in repulse and in the death of one of the deputy marshals; how President Pierce and the Mayor J. V. C. Smith. of Boston concentrated all the military within reach to prevent a second attempt and enforce the decision of the court; how Commissioner Loring yielded up the victim Edward Greely Loring. to his master; and how, amid every emblem and manifestation of popular indignation and mourning, Burns Lib. 24.90, 91; 25.34, 38, 42, 59. was carried down State Street between armed files to the place of embarkation. To point the contrast that nullification of the Compromise of 1850 meant treason, w
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 37: the national election of 1852.—the Massachusetts constitutional convention.—final defeat of the coalition.— 1852-1853. (search)
th the Free Soilers; In 1858. when Adams was first nominated for Congress by the Republicans, he expected to lose his nomination, largely because of the wound his course at this time had left; but the objection was overcome by his admitted fitness for the place. it engendered a spirit of hostility to foreign voters which was soon to take shape in a secret political organization. The Whigs were defeated even in their stronghold, the city of Boston, the next month by the election of J. V. C. Smith, the Citizens' Union candidate, who was supported by the secret order and by the Free Soilers. This was the beginning of the Know Nothing or Native American party in Massachusetts. Sumner wrote to Whittier, November 21:— The day after our election I left for New York. where, among other things, I enjoyed the Crystal Palace, and Uncle Tom's Cabin at the theatre, and on my return, Sunday morning, found your letter. The loss of the Constitution is a severe calamity to the liber