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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abolitionists. (search)
ah Green was president and Lewis Tappan and John G. Whittier secretaries. From this time the question became of national importance. Able and earnest men, such as Weld, May, and Phillips, journeyed through the Northern States as the agents of the National Society, founding State branches and everywhere lecturing on abolition, and were often met by mob violence. In Connecticut, in 1833, Miss Prudence Crandall, of Canterbury, opened her school for negro girls. The Legislature, by act of May 24, 1833, forbade the establishment of such schools, and imprisoned Miss Crandall. Being set at liberty, she was ostracized by her neighbors and her school broken up. For a year George Thomson, who had done much to secure British emancipation in the West Indies, lectured throughout the North. He was mobbed in Boston, and escaped from the country in disguise, in November, 1835. On Nov. 7, 1837, Elijah P. Lovejoy (q. v.), a Presbyterian minister, who had established an abolition newspaper in Alto
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Temperance reform. (search)
s. John Tappan and S. V. S. Wilder were prominent in it. The following is the chronology of the chief events in the temperance movement in America: First women's temperance society organized in Ohio, close of......1828 New York State and Connecticut State temperance societies organized......1829 Congressional Temperance Society organized at Washington, D. C.......Feb. 26, 1833 First national temperance convention meets at Philadelphia; 440 delegates from twenty-two States......May 24-27, 1833 Order of Sons of Temperance organized in New York......Sept. 29, 1842 John B. Gough signs the pledge at Worcester, Mass......Oct. 31, 1842 Father Mathew visits the United States; arriving in New York on the Ashburton; he is welcomed at the Irving House as the guest of the city......July 2, 1849 Maine liquor law passed......June 2, 1851 Order of Good Templars formed in New York State......1851 Father Mathew sails from Philadelphia on the Pacific for Ireland after an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
.....March 3, 1833 [This law scaled down all duties so that 20 per cent. should be the standard duty in 1842.] Twenty-second Congress adjourns......March 3, 1833 Twelfth administration—Democratic, March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1837. Andrew Jackson, Tennessee, President. Martin Van Buren, New York, Vice-President. South Carolina repeals the ordinance of nullification in a convention held......March 16, 1833 John Randolph, of Virginia, dies in Philadelphia, aged sixty......May 24, 1833 President Jackson lays near Fredericksburg, Va., the corner-stone of a monument to Washington's mother, Mary Washington......May, 1833 President Jackson makes a tour of the Eastern States as far as Concord, N. H., returning to Washington......July 3, 1833 President removes W. J. Duane, Secretary of Treasury, for refusing to withdraw the deposits from the National Bank, and appoints Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, in his place......Sept. 23, 1833 President Jackson directs the Secr