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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 20: Abraham Lincoln.—1860. (search)
incoln is elected President. Garrison hails the secession of South Carolina as the end of the old Union and of slavery. The lamentable tragedy at Harper's Ferry is clearly traceable to the unjustifiable attempt to force slavery into Kansas by a repeal of the Missouri Compromise. So thought and wrote, to a New York meeting of Dec. 16, 1859; Lib. 29.205. Union-savers ex-President Fillmore, in the fortnight succeeding the hanging of John Brown. It was the historic truth; and the work of Nemesis had but begun. Directly after the attack on Harper's Ferry, the South initiated disunion by fortifying itself against domestic insurrection, both by extra vigilance and armed police, by legislative measures to force its free negro population Lib. 29.201, 207; 30.3, 6, 11, 31, 185, 187. back into slavery or into removal, and by renewed stringency in excluding Northern Republican papers from the Lib. 29.201, 205; 30.71, 123, 137, 151. mails. Moreover, the mobbing and expulsion of Northe