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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 7: first Western tour.—1847. (search)
at Congress could emancipate in the States, and admitted the existence of slave representation under the Constitution by declaring the three-fifths allowance unrepublican, and demanding its abrogation. The New England delegation went in a body for Hale of New Hampshire, J. P. Hale. already the Presidential nominee of his own select little Lib. 17.186. party of Independent Democrats. As an opponent of slavery, his claims fell far short of those of many a Lib. 18.18. Whig—for example, of Giddings. Birney's claims, too, J. R. Giddings. whether for perpetual nomination, or for incense, or (now that he was physically disabled) for sympathy, Lib. 17.186; 18.14. were wholly ignored by the Convention. All this furnished food for conversation between Wright and Garrison as they journeyed Eastward to the invalid's home. Invalid he remained for two months after his arrival, suffering a partial relapse, and quite incapacitated Oct. 28, 1847. up to the end of the year from taking any p
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 14: the Nebraska Bill.—1854. (search)
such is our intention)! In 1845, it ran: Admit another slave State, and the Union is ipso facto dissolved! The best of the Free Soil leaders Lib. 24.13, 33. in Congress were still denying all thought of interfering with slavery in the States; Giddings and Sumner were Lib. 24.105, 121, 149. dodging the plain inquiry whether they admitted any Constitutional obligation with respect to fugitive slaves. Seward, discounting the present triumph of slavery in the case of Kansas and Nebraska, and anermination of slavery by coming to Washington. I go home more discouraged than ever. Mr. Smith had been elected to Congress in the fall of 1852 (Lib. 22: 163, [182]). He was now going home for good, having resigned on account of his health. Giddings, Chase, J. R. Giddings. S. P. Chase. etc. are full of hope, but I am yet to see that there is a North. Well did Lysander Spooner write to the editor Feb. 13, 1854; Lib. 24.30. of the Commonwealth, refusing to be a delegate to an Anti-Nebraska