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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The conflict with slavery (search)
hteous God. John Quincy Adams. In 1837 Isaac Knapp printed Letters from John Quincy Adams to his Constituents of the Twelfth Congressional District in Massachusetts, to which is added his Speech in Congress, delivered February 9, 1837, and the following stood as an introduction to the pamphlet. the following letters havfriend of justice and the rights of man, irrespective of color or condition. The principles which they defend, the sentiments which they express, are those of Massachusetts, as recently asserted, almost unanimously, by her legislature. In both branches of that body, during the discussion of the subject of slavery and the right of petition, the course of the ex-President was warmly and eloquently commended. Massachusetts will sustain her tried and faithful representative; and the time is not far distant when the best and worthiest citizens of the entire North will proffer him their thanks for hi noble defence of their rights as freemen, and of the rights o
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Democracy and slavery. (search)
or from the levelling doctrines urged upon them by the liberty and equality propagandists of the South. The doctrines of Virginia were quite as unpalatable to Massachusetts at the beginning of the present century as those of Massachusetts now are to the Old Dominion. Democracy interfered with old usages and time-honored institutiMassachusetts now are to the Old Dominion. Democracy interfered with old usages and time-honored institutions, and threatened to plough up the very foundations of the social fabric. It was zealously opposed by the representatives of New England in Congress and in the home legislatures; and in many pulpits hands were lifted to God in humble entreaty that the curse and bane of democracy, an offshoot of the rabid Jacobinism of revolutionThe old order of things was broken up; equality before the law was established, religious tests and restrictions of the right of suffrage were abrogated. Take Massachusetts, for example. There the resistance to democratic principles was the most strenuous and longest continued. Yet, at this time, there is no state in the Union m
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
n attempt was made in the General Court of Massachusetts to prevent the increase of slaves. Judge rmy and navy to convert the good people of Massachusetts into expert slave-catchers, under the discand his party wrong. The Republicans of Massachusetts will make no fractious or importunate dematives and retainers, it is to the honor of Massachusetts that her representatives in the Senate havJohn A. Andrew, dear to the heart of every Massachusetts soldier, and whose tender care and sympathrry to think there existed a single son of Massachusetts weak enough to believe that his reputationindicate the illustrious statesman to whom Massachusetts, the country, and humanity owe so much, bubmitted to the legislature of the State of Massachusetts. They indicate, in our view, the real gloto jails and other places of punishment in Massachusetts, where they incurred the fearful liability A century and a half ago the populace of Massachusetts were convulsed with grim merriment at the [15 more...]
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Criticism (search)
t, end of poetry is rhadamanthine justice. The poet should mete out their deserts to all his heroes; honor to whom honor, and infamy to whom infamy, is due. It is true that the wrong in this case is in a great degree fathered upon our own Massachusetts; and it may be said that it is a foul bird that pollutes its own nest. We deny the applicability of the rather musty proverb. All the worse. Of not a more contemptible vice is what is called American literature guilty than this of unmitigaf the times of the second Charles With their own backs scored and their ears cropped for the crime of denying the divine authority of church and state in England, were they the men to whip Baptists and hang Quakers for doing the same thing in Massachusetts? Of all that is noble and true in the Puritan character we are sincere admirers. The generous and self-denying apostleship of Eliot is, of itself, a beautiful page in their history. The physical daring and hardihood with which, amidst th
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Index of titles of prose writings (search)
the Thieves, VII. 221. Magicians and Witch Folk, v. 399. Margaret Smith's Journal, v. 9. Marvell, Andrew, VI. 87. Mirth and Medicine, VII. 374. My Summer with Dr. Singletary, v. 197. Nayler, James, VI. 69. O'Connell, Daniel, VI. 321. Old Newbury, VI. 312. Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, VI. 9. Old Way, The, VII. 360. Opium Eater, The, v. 278. Our Dumb Relations, VII. 242. Passaconaway, v. 258. Patucket Falls, v. 360. Peculiar Institutions of Massachusetts, VII. 209. Pilgrims of Plymouth, The, VI. 431. Placido, the Slave Poet, VI. 261. Poetry of the North, The, VII. 396. Pope Night, VI. 389. Presidential Election of 1872, The, VII. 161. Proselytes, The, v. 305. Reading for the Blind, VII. 236. Republican Party, The, VII. 240. Response to the Celebration of my Eightieth Birthday by the Colored Citizens of Washington, D. C., VII. 196. Roberts, John, VI. 104. Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody, VI. 216. School-day