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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 6: removal to Brunswick, 1850-1852. (search)
ficulties greater than he could overcome, and after vain wrestlings the words that broke from him, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that his justice cannot sleep forever, were the words of despair. It was the desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should remove slavery by a public act; and as the prospects of a general emancipation grew more and more dim . . . he did all that he could by bequeathing freedom to his own slaves. Bancroft's funeral oration on Lincoln. Hamilton was one of the founders of the Manumission Society, the object of which was the abolition of slaves in the State of New York. Patrick Henry, speaking of slavery, said: A serious view of this subject gives a gloomy prospect to future times. Slavery was thought by the founders of our Republic to be a dying institution, and all the provisions of the Constitution touching slavery looked towards gradual emancipation as an inevitable result of the growth of the democracy. From
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 16: the Civil war, 1860-1865. (search)
s and ravings of the exorcism. The roots of the cancer have gone everywhere, but they must die -will. Already the Confiscation Bill is its natural destruction. Lincoln has been too slow. He should have done it sooner, and with an impulse, but come it must, come it will. Your mother will live to see slavery abolished, unless Ennd like them redeemed the ark of liberty at the price of their own blood, and blood dearer than their own. The time of the Presidential canvass which elected Mr. Lincoln was the crisis of this great battle. The conflict had become narrowed down to the one point of the extension of slave territory. If the slaveholders could getw, six years later, the North but falteringly supports the policy of the government, though impelled by the force of events which then you did not dream of. President Lincoln has lived half his troubled reign. In the coming half I hope he may see land; surely slavery will be so broken up that nothing can restore and renew it; and
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
alls upon, 237. L. Labouchere, Lady, Mary, visit to, 283. Lady Byron Vindicated, 454; date , 490. Letters, circular, writing of, a custom in the Beecher family, 99; H. B. S.'s love of, 62, 63; H. B. S.'s peculiar emotions on re-reading old, 507. Lewes, G. H., George Eliot's letter after death of, 483. Lewes, Mrs. G. H. See Eliot, George, 325. Library of Famous Fiction, date of, 491. Liberator, The, 261; and Bible, 263; suspended after the close of civil war, 396. Lincoln and slavery, 380; death of, 398. Lind, Jenny, liberality of, 181; H. B. S. attends concert by, 182; letter to H. B. S. from, on her delight in Uncle Tom's Cabin, 183; letters from H. B. S. to, with appeal for slaves, 183, 184. Litchfield, birthplace of H. B. S., 1; end of her child-life in, 21; home at broken up, 35. Literary labors, early, 15-21 ; prize story, 68; club essays, 69-71; contributor to Western monthly magazine, 81; school geography, 65; described in letter to a friend