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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 2: Germs of contention among brethren.—1836. (search)
hey were directed. The Southern delegates in Congress could not agree as to modes of repression; they even had still some respect for Constitutional principles. Calhoun would Lib. 6.26, 34. not trust Congress with the power to determine what was incendiary, and what tended to excite insurrection: the abolitionists would in time ons for the abolition of slavery in the District. The honester Southern members acknowledged the power of Congress in the premises; others, following the lead of Calhoun, denied it, and were for summarily rejecting the petitions—in Benton, Vol. 1, Chaps. 130, 135. other words, suppressing the right of petition on that subject. Ths message, and the conduct of the South generally have caused many to think favorably of immediate emancipation who never before inclined to it ( Memoir, 1: 173). Calhoun, personifying the remorseless logic of slavery; Houston, exemplifying its reckless filibustering spirit, combined to draw after them the more moderate elements.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
ody when William Slade, of Vermont, presenting a petition for the abolition of slavery in the District, moved (the gag-rule having again lapsed) its reference to the proper committee, with instructions to report a bill; that, after an excited caucus, a fresh gag Called Patton's, after the mover, a Virginian. It forbade even the reading of the petitions. It was summarily adopted by the previous question on Dec. 21, 1837. Lib. 8.15, 9.30. was hastily imposed for the new session; and that Calhoun introduced in the Senate resolutions declaring the Lib. 8.3, 7, 11, 13, 14. suppression of the anti-slavery agitation a Government duty in the interest of domestic tranquillity, and opposition to the increase of slave territory an attempt to impair the equality of the States under the Constitution, as in effect disfranchising the slaveholding States. In these sentiments of his old opponent Ex-President Jackson had fully concurred on withdrawing from public Lib. 7.43, 99. life in a fare
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 4: Pennsylvania Hall.—the non-resistance society.—1838. (search)
ee on Foreign Affairs, entrusted with the subject of Texan annexation, Lib. 8.101. pocketed, without bestowing the least attention on them, the various State resolves against the measure—an affront to State sovereignty without a parallel; even Calhoun (in the case of the Vermont anti-Texas resolutions) not Lib. 8.13. being prepared to exclude such privileged communications. And while silence was thus imposed on States as upon individuals, in regard to vital and fundamental political questions, because slavery was involved in them, Senator Preston, the colleague of Calhoun, was winning the applause of his section by declaring in his seat, that if an abolitionist come within the borders of South Lib. 8.11. Carolina, and we can catch him, we will try him, and, notwithstanding all the interference of all the governments of the earth, including this Federal Government, we will hang him. This lawless and savage threat was heard without remonstrance by the senators from Lib. 8.159,
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
force's funeral, 379; talk with G. as to Thompson, 436; meets G. again, 2.385, 387.—Letters to G., 1.369, E. Wright, 1.425.— See as to portrait, 1.359. Byron, Lady [1792-1860], talk with G., 2.376, dines with him, 387. Cabot, Susan, 2.55. Calhoun, John Caldwell [1782-1850], ultra proslavery leader, 2.81; bill to keep A. S. matter from South, 1.232, his own mail tampered with, 500, plan for pro-slavery censorship of mail, 2.74, 104; calls on Government to suppress abolition, 197, 248; wouudge, 1.514. Prescott, Edward G., 2.28, 29. Prescott, William Hickling [1796-1859], 1.439. Preston, Jonas, 1.207. Preston, William Campbell [1794-1860], admits growing power of abolitionists, 2.81, 82; would hang them in S. C., 247; proves Calhoun inconsistent, 248. Price, Joseph T., 1.353. Price, Thomas, Rev., Editor Eclectic Review, 1.354; refuses Cresson his chapel, 356. Pringle, Thomas, 1.226. Providence (R. I.), colored petition for suffrage, 1.256.—See Rhode Island. Pugh<