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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 1 1 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 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
ound that the law of nations (!) guaranteed the right of transit for slave property like any other (Lib. 25: 167). In Kansas, the liberty of white men is struck down, and held at the point of the bayonet, and here in Massachusetts we sympathize —in the abstract! But when a brave man comes here to raise money to arm with Sharp's rifles his company of a hundred Kansas farmers, does he find a material aid at all commensurate with his expectations? Doubtless the agent referred to was Major James B. Abbott. See Sanborn's Life of John Brown, p. 212. Alas, no! I have a sad letter which tells the contrary, but I will not read it, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice. But you cannot wonder if members of Congress, statesmen, refuse to sacrifice their places for freedom, when we will not sacrifice our purses. . . . Mr. Phillips told us, that on this day, twenty years ago, the military could not protect the meeting, because the guns were outside in the mob—or the men who sho