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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 2: the Background (search)
ti-slavery people always bore him. Let us, however, go to the bottom of the whole matter. On January 13th, 1840, Dr. Charles Follen, a German enthusiast and one of the few highly educated men among the Abolitionists, was burned alive in the ill-fated steamer Lexington, while on a journey from New York to Boston. Follen was a young doctor of laws and a teacher at the University of Jena, who had been prosecuted for his liberal opinions by the reactionary governments of Prussia and Austria in 1g his opinions on slavery. He afterwards took a pastorate in the Unitarian Church and lost it through the same cause. Follen was what Goethe used to call a Schoene Seele, --beloved of all. He was an especial friend of Channing's. His tragic deathusetts Anti-Slavery Society, on the sad occasion when all truehearted persons were called to mourn the awful death of Charles Follen, and when the Rev. S. J. May had prepared a discourse in commemoration of the rare virtues of that heroic and honore
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 5: the crisis (search)
arrow partisan who little understood the issue under discussion, and who thought it his duty towards his constituents to browbeat the reformers, declined to allow Follen to pursue this line of argument. The Abolitionists, upon this rebuff, brought the hearing promptly to a close, asserting that they must be allowed to make their ppear before you in the exercise of our right as free citizens, we have appealed to the Senate and House of Representatives, and have their permission to do so. Dr. Follen was setting before you what we deem the most serious evil to be apprehended from any condemnatory resolutions which the Legislature might be induced to pass; and if he is not permitted to press this upon your consideration our interview with the Committee must end here. Mr. Follen was allowed by the chairman to proceed, but the following speaker, Rev. William Goodell, was compelled to sit down by the chairman. He was at the moment in the midst of a most telling quotation from Gov. M
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
J. E., 251. Calhoun, John C., 7, 23, 140, 158, 193, 208. Canterbury, Conn., Crandall case at, 70 if. Chamberlain, Daniel H., quoted, 243. Channing, William Ellery, and the slavery question, 26 f., 87, 88; and Abolition, 27, 28, 81-86; and Follen, 29, 30; and the theory of association, 31; G. at his church, 31, 32, Ioo, 129, 133, 174, 224. Charleston, S. C., postoffice at, broken into, 104, 105. Charleston Courier, 187. Cincinnati Convention (1853), 160. Civil War, the, 4, 59, 6holders 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 st