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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 8 0 Browse Search
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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
y—exposing the pernicious influences upon the master, as well as the Slave—declaring that the love of justice and the love of country pleaded equally for the Slave, and that the abolition of domestic Slavery was the greatest object of desire. There also was the venerable patriot, Benjamin Franklin, who did not hesitate to liken the American master of black Slaves to the Algerine corsair with his white Slaves, and who, as President of the earliest Abolition Society——the same of which Passmore Williamson is now the honored Secretary——by solemn petition, called upon Congress to step to the very verge of the power vested in it to discourage every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men. Thus completely, by this triumvirate of Freedom, was Slavery condemned, and the power of the Government invoked against it. By such men, and in such spirit, was the National Constitution framed. The emphatic words of the Declaration of Independence, which our country took upon its
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxvii. (search)
y—exposing the pernicious influences upon the master, as well as the Slave—declaring that the love of justice and the love of country pleaded equally for the Slave, and that the abolition of domestic Slavery was the greatest object of desire. There also was the venerable patriot, Benjamin Franklin, who did not hesitate to liken the American master of black Slaves to the Algerine corsair with his white Slaves, and who, as President of the earliest Abolition Society——the same of which Passmore Williamson is now the honored Secretary——by solemn petition, called upon Congress to step to the very verge of the power vested in it to discourage every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men. Thus completely, by this triumvirate of Freedom, was Slavery condemned, and the power of the Government invoked against it. By such men, and in such spirit, was the National Constitution framed. The emphatic words of the Declaration of Independence, which our country took upon its
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
friends, even in the greatest self-devotion, there is something more to be learned, and we have got it to learn. Passmore Williamson is in his prison, and Massachusetts men are quiet, and go about their daily business; and if he were in prison in Boston, it would be very nearly the same thing. Passmore Williamson, a respected citizen of Philadelphia, and an active abolitionist, on July 18, 1855, notified three slaves of a Virginian, the U. S. Minister to Nicaragua, about to embark for hisas arrested and brought before Judge Kane, who ordered of him an impossibility, viz., that he produce the late slaves. Williamson's truthful reply that they were not in his custody, and that he could not produce them, was treated as contempt of cour-slavery struggle. See, for details, Lib. 25: 119, 131, 167, 178, 179, 182, 191, 194, and the volume, The case of Passmore Williamson, Philadelphia, 1856. Judge Kane took the extraordinary ground that the law of nations (!) guaranteed the right of