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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 56 0 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 12: Kossuth.—1852. (search)
r. Please don't publish it, and don't feel constrained in courtesy to answer, unless you see a flaw in my judgment of the case. Then I should like to see it too. Kossuth was more powerfully stirred, I imagine, by Dr. Elder's speech at the Banquet than Wm. Elder. by anything he has heard in this country. I did not hear it, as I left the instant Kossuth finished; but they say it kindled him, Kossuth. The next speech he makes afterwards, at Baltimore, he says he grows unwilling to speak in English, since we have such eloquent men among us; and the Dr., he must learn, is an anti-slavery man. On the whole, I think Kossuth will do us more good than we can do him. He has taken such a hold of people's hearts that they will hardly endure that our domestic concern should meddle with him. It has meddled with him already most insultingly, and, when he sees that fact, it will absolve him from all his promises not to meddle with it. You will perceive that the view of his position which I sug
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 18: the irrepressible Conflict.—1858. (search)
ment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina. The popular demonstrations against this policy, the Lib. 28.27, 28, 48. resistance promised by the Legislature of Kansas, Lib. 28.34. Douglas's adverse report in the Senate, Crittenden's attempt to Lib. 28.59; Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, 2.558. secure submission of the Lecompton Constitution to the popular vote—were all in vain. The two houses disagreeing, a conference committee adopted the bill contrived by William H. English of Indiana, and on April Lib. 28.75; Wilson, 2.564, 565. 30 the enabling act was passed. The first section of Article 7 of the Constitution embedded in the act read as follows: The right of property is before and higher than any Lib. 28.107. constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same, and as inviolable, as the right of the owner of any property whatever. The bill allowed Kansas to enter the Union at once with