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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 2: the Background (search)
negro, and especially about the right of benevolent people at the North to extend their benevolence to the negro, as, for instance, in their schools, Sunday-schools, hospitals, etc. Now the South sincerely believed that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had morally bound the North not to talk about slavery in private conversation, and not to treat the negro as a human being. The South had succeeded in imposing this conviction upon the whole North. The patriotism of all classes, wrote Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts, in a message to his Legislature, the patriotism of all classes must be invoked to abstain from discussion, which by exasperating the master, can have no other effect than to render more oppressive the condition of the slave. This paralysis of dumbness and of fear touched everyone. It was not exactly fear, either, but a sort of subtle freemasonry, a secret belief that nothing must be disturbed. The Southerners lived in sincere terror of slave uprisings-an
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 5: the crisis (search)
ged in these unconstitutional and wicked attempts [ to circulate through the mails inflammatory appeals addressed to the passions of the slaves ]. Here was support from high quarters. It was not till January, 1836, that the time came for Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts, to take notice of the entreaties of the Southern States. In his Message to the Massachusetts Legislature he intimated that the Abolitionists could be punished under the law as it stood: because whatever by direct The printingoffice of the Liberator was closed, and the work was done clandestinely elsewhere. During this winter the Abolitionists kept rather quiet; but they emerged in the spring to attend the Lunt Committee that Committee appointed by Governor Everett to consider the requests from Southern legislatures that Massachusetts should do something to suppress Anti-slavery. The first hearing in the matter was held on March 4th, 1836, at the State House. The audience was so large that the Hall o
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 6: Retrospect and prospect. (search)
phet, in whose bosom the turmoil of a new age begins, sees proofs of that age everywhere. He thinks of nothing else, he cares for nothing else. Thus the Abolitionists could see in 1830 what the average man could not understand till 1845--that the Slave Power was a Moloch which controlled the politics of the North and which, in the nature of things, could stick at nothing while engaged in perpetuating that control. Garrison or May could perceive this in 1828 by taking an observation of Edward Everett or of Daniel Webster. But the average citizen could not see it; he lacked the detachment. His obfuscation was a part of the problem, a part of the evil in the period. In 1845 it required the Annexation of Texas to show to the man in the street those same truths which the Abolitionists had seen so plainly fifteen years before. The Annexation of Texas was the most educational of all the convulsive demonstrations of the South. Where did the motive power reside from which all these c
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
ists, 226,227,228; his lecture on Thetimes, quoted, 229, 230; and the mur. der of Lovejoy,231,234; his New England reformers, quoted, 233, 234; his Cooper Union speech (1854), quoted, 234ff.; 86. England, philanthropists of, and the U. S., 245, 246; G. organizes Anti-Slavery League in, 246; why she did not recognize the Confederacy, 250, 251. Episcopalians, and Abolition, 200, 208. EvANGELICALAlliance,the, slave-holders admitted to, 247; denounced by G. and Thompson, 247, 248. Everett, Edward, quoted, 25, 26; and Abolition, 102, 103; 124, 138. Faneuil Hall, meeting of friends of South in, IoI, Io9 if.; meeting in, on Lovejoy murder, 129 if. Follen, Charles, death of, 28; Channing and proposed meeting in commemoration of, 29, 30; and the Lunt Committee, 124, 125. Forster, William E., 96, 251. Foster, Abby K., 210. Francis of Assisi, 86. Franklin, Benjamin, 41. free States, and slave states, admitted to Union in pairs, 9. Freedom, and Slavery, nature of conte