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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 5: Texas.—1845. (search)
5.185; cf. 206. nothing further left, and disregarding the example of Florida, vainly looked for some modification of the pro-slavery Constitution of Texas. Abbott Lawrence and Nathan Appleton, ex-members of Congress, not only desisted from opposition On March 25, 1837, Mr. Lawrence wrote to his constituents: The independence Mr. Lawrence wrote to his constituents: The independence of this infant nation [Texas] has already been recognized by our Government. The next movement of the friends of Texas will be its annexation to the United States. . . . Should their object be attained, where will be the patronage and Executive power of the Government? Will it not be gone, forever departed, from the free States? in letter and spirit as we received it from our fathers, and resist every attempt at the acquisition of territory to be inhabited by slaves (Hill's Memoir of Abbott Lawrence, p. 21). to a deed actually accomplished, but rebuked those of their colleagues whose conscience and Lib. 15.194. zeal outran their discretion as practical m
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
See John Brown's own account of the Convention in Sanborn's Life of him, pp. 193, 194. Among the donors was Capt. Charles Stuart—a clear case of British Gold. In November, another homicide led to the siege of Lib. 25.195, 198, 199, 203. Lawrence by the Border-Ruffian army under Atchison and Stringfellow, and the so-called Wakarusa war. Lib. 25.203; 26.2. Governor Shannon summoned out the militia (i. e., the Missourians), and made demand on the President for Lib. 25.199. Federal troopsd any faith in it as a breakwater against the inundation of the dark waters of oppression. He knew that the emigrants represented only the average sentiment of the North on the subject of slavery. As Charles Stearns wrote to the Liberator from Lawrence on December 24, 1854: Multitudes of those who are such flaming abolitionists here, Lib. 25:[6]. as they call themselves, are a sui generis kind of abolitionist—a mongrel character, like Aunt Ophelia in Uncle Tom's Cabin. They are despera
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 16: Fremont.—1856. (search)
The Pierce Administration being resolved to sink or swim with Border-Ruffian supremacy in Kansas, the Territory was plunged deeper and deeper into civil war, with the United States troops as a complicating factor— dispersing the free-State Legislature, disarming Lib. 26.127, 171, 103. Northern immigrant bodies as well as attempting to exclude the Southern raiders, and assisting in the execution of bogus writs. Three Southern armies spread terror in every free-State settlement, especially Lawrence, whose hotel and printing-office were battered down by way of Lib. 26.87, 95. judicial abatement as nuisances, and Osawatomie, which Lib. 26.99. was sacked. Entrance to Kansas by the Missouri River Lib. 26.107, 110, 129, [135], [147], 171. route was practically closed, and even the Iowa and Nebraska frontiers were watched and picketed. The first free-State reprisals were made by John Brown in what Sanborn's John Brown, chap. IX. his latest biographer calls the Pottawatomie executions