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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 65 3 Browse Search
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison 48 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 44 0 Browse Search
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights 26 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 25 3 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 24 0 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 12 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 4 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 4 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 5: the crisis (search)
any different manner, had he shown fight, as Lovejoy did at Alton, had his followers become exaspeperience of Birney and his press in Ohio, of Lovejoy and his press in Illinois, the burning of Penmax of all this period was the murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy, a young Presbyterian minister and nativthe hands of infuriated Pro-slavery rioters. Lovejoy, though a clergyman, had determined to proteceaceful citizens resisting illegal violence. Lovejoy was ruthlessly shot down by a shower of bullestand and to resist the advance of slavery as Lovejoy's murder. The Abolitionists of Boston immedi meeting, its object being to protest against Lovejoy's murder as a crime against the statutory rigr of the conservatives. Austin declared that Lovejoy was not only presumptuous and imprudent whilerd the mob at Alton, the drunken murderers of Lovejoy, compared to those patriot fathers who threw eeting was cast for freedom: the murderers of Lovejoy were denounced. The practical importance o[1 more...]
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 9: Garrison and Emerson. (search)
as nothing to do with the ineffectuality of his perceptions. Upon Lovejoy's murder, in 1837, Emerson sternly rejoiced, says Dr. Edward W. Emooked the Boston audience in the eyes as he said these words about Lovejoy, and a shudder seemed to run through the audience, yet unprepared nce in the Journals, and once in the Works, and he adds, of course Lovejoy had other defenders in Boston. Yes, Lovejoy certainly had other dLovejoy certainly had other defenders in Boston; and it is fortunate for us that he had. Emerson's words of approbation for Lovejoy seem to have been carefully weigheLovejoy seem to have been carefully weighed, and he does not mention slavery. He belonged, in fact, to that large class of people who were shocked because free speech was murdered in Lovejoy's murder. Now, inasmuch as Emerson was lecturing before very conservative people, even this reference to free speech and opinion camen into an understanding of the Slave Power. It did what neither Lovejoy's murder, nor the Annexation of Texas was able to do: --it waked u
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
ecution of, 105 if.; in Boston, 112, 113; and T. Lyman, 122; and the murder of Lovejoy, 129 ff.; in New York, course of, 147 ff.; conservative, form the New Organizaoston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 113. Boston Tea Party, and the murder of Lovejoy, 130, 131. Bowditch, Henry I., quoted, 19, 20 and n.; 21, 108, 123. Brads, 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 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 meetin. Louisiana Purchase, 9, Io. Louisiana territory, slavery in, 9. Lovejoy, Elijah P., murder of, and its effect,128 if.; Emerson on, 231, 232; 117, 119, 238. th and South, 254. And see Colonization Society, Crandall, P., Lane Seminary, Lovejoy, E. P. Slavery in West Indies, abolition of, 244. Smith, Goldwin, 251.