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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 5: Bennington and the Journal of the Times—1828-29. (search)
easily conquered by meekness, and perseverance, and prayer. Sirs, the prejudices of the North are stronger than those of the South;—they bristle, like so many bayonets, around the slaves;—they forge and rivet the chains of the nation. Conquer them, and the victory is won. The enemies of emancipation take courage from our criminal timidity. They have justly stigmatized us, even on the floor of Congress, with the most contemptuous epithets. We are (they say) their white slaves, In Henry Adams's Life of John Randolph we read (p. 281): On another occasion, he [Randolph] is reported as saying of the people of the North, We do not govern them by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves. afraid of our own shadows, who have been driven back to the wall again and again; who stand trembling under their whips; who turn pale, retreat, and surrender, at a talismanic threat to dissolve the Union. . . . It is often despondingly said, that the evil of slavery is beyond our control