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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 3: the figure (search)
serviency might go. The Mayor of Boston, Harrison Gray Otis, was naturally appealed to by the Southed man in Boston and urging the slaves to rise. Otis replied that the author had not made himself amrenewed the campaign against the Liberator, and Otis was again appealed to. To be more specific i We have no doubt whatever of the feelings of Mr. Otis on this subject, or those of his respectable . Robert Y. Hayne of Columbia, S. C., begged Otis to find out whether Garrison had mailed him (Hayne) a copy of the Liberator. Otis obsequiously sent a deputy to question Garrison. This was someth a prostitution of his office on the part of Mayor Otis; because what Hayne wanted was to obtain evi cowardices and cruelties of his own age. Mayor Otis saw nothing important in the episode which hves in this country. . . . At a later period Otis wrote: Some time afterward, it was reportft us, in this anecdote, a silhouette of Harrison Gray Otis, one of Boston's most eminent personages[1 more...]
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 5: the crisis (search)
this language so far removed from good sense that it gives us pause. That something is the influence of terror. Mr. Harrison Gray Otis, who moved on a still higher social plane than Sprague, nay, who stood very near the gods in the imagination of Bsister States. There may be no statute to make such combinations penal, because the offense is of a new complexion. Mr. Otis found an even stronger objection to the Society in its evident direction towards becoming a political association, whoset Lawrence. How soon might you see a majority in Congress returned under the influence of (Anti-slavery) associations? Otis' reasoning here is the chattering of teeth. The ballot-box and election! why not? The slavery issue to come into politiillips continued: Sir, when I heard the gentleman lay down principles which place the murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Hancock, with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips (pointing to the portraits in the Hall) would have broke
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
5. Gurney, Samuel, 245, 251. Harrington, Judge, 140. Harris, Miss, colored pupil of P. Crandall, 70, 71. Hayne, Robert Y., Webster's reply to, 14; appeals to Otis against G., 53; Liberator, quoted on, 53, 54. Henry, Patrick, 215. Herndon, William H., quoted, 259, 260. Holmes, 0. W., 230. Hopkins, John H., his View o; repeal of, 10, 256, 258. Nashville, vigilance committee at, 76. National Anti-Slavery Society founded, 73 if.; 151. National Intelligencer, the, appeals to Otis, 52, 53. negro, the, how related to the beginning of the struggle between North and South, 25 f. New Organization, the, 153, 154. New Testament, the, and ogists, 200, 201. New York Herald, denounces G., 201-203; on Rynders Mob, 207 ff. North Carolina, G. indicted in, 50. O'Connell, Daniel, 245, 246. Otis, Harrison Gray, and Southern attacks on G., 50 ff.; quoted, in the Liberator, 54, 55; a silhouette of, 56; at Faneuil Hall, I II, I 12. Otis, James, 49, 56. Park St. C