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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abolitionists. (search)
ed Jan. 1, 1832; in 1833 Garrison visited England, and secured from Wilberforce, Zachary Macaulay, Daniel O'Connell, and other English abolitionists, a condemnation of the colonizationists. In December, 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society was organized, in Philadelphia, by an abolition convention of which Beriah Green was president and Lewis Tappan and John G. Whittier secretaries. From this time the question became of national importance. Able and earnest men, such as Weld, May, and Phillips, journeyed through the Northern States as the agents of the National Society, founding State branches and everywhere lecturing on abolition, and were often met by mob violence. In Connecticut, in 1833, Miss Prudence Crandall, of Canterbury, opened her school for negro girls. The Legislature, by act of May 24, 1833, forbade the establishment of such schools, and imprisoned Miss Crandall. Being set at liberty, she was ostracized by her neighbors and her school broken up. For a year George
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anti-slavery Society, American, (search)
Anti-slavery Society, American, An organization founded in Philadelphia. Pa., in 1833, by delegates from several State and city societies in the Northern and Eastern States, the first local one having been established in Boston, Jan. 16, 1832, under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison. The presidents of the national society were Arthur Tappan, Lindley Coates, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips, and in its membership were the leading abolitionists of the day. The members, individually, were subjected for many years to mob violence, and the feeling in the South against the society was exceedingly bitter. The members heroically kept together, in spite of persecution and personal assault, till April 9, 1870, when, on the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the national Constitution, the main society was disbanded. See Colonization Society, American; Liberia.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 (search)
n the Elizabeth River and assist in capturing him. Steuben, who was recruiting for Greene's army in Virginia, also watched him. The effort failed, for Arnold was vigilant and extremely cautious. He knew what would be his fate if caught. What would the Americans do with me, if they should catch me? Arnold inquired of a young prisoner. They would cut off and bury with military honors your leg that was wounded at Saratoga. and hang the rest of you, replied the young American soldier. General Phillips joined Arnold (March 26) with more than 2,000 men, and took the chief command. The traitor accompanied him on another expedition up the James River, in April, and then returned to New York, for Cornwallis, who came into Virginia from North Carolina, refused to serve with him. When Sir Henry Clinton found that the allied armies were actually going to Virginia, he tried to alarm Washington by threats of marauding expeditions. He sent Arnold, with a band of regulars and Tories, to com
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bemis's Heights, battles of. (search)
lowly southward, and on the morning of Sept. 19 he offered battle to Gates. First battle. His left wing, with the immense artillery train, commanded by Generals Phillips and Riedesel, kept upon the plain near the river. The centre, composed largely of German troops, led by Burgoyne in person, extended to a range of hills thaled by Colonels Brooks, Dearborn, Scammel, Cilley, and Major Hull, he struck the enemy such heavy blows that his line began to wave and fall into confusion. General Phillips, below the heights, heard through the woods the dine of battle, and hurried over the hills with fresh English troops and some artillery, followed by a portio two howitzers, leaving the main army on the heights in command of Brigadiers Specht and Hamilton, and the redoubts near the river with Brigadier-General Gall. Phillips, Fraser, and Riedesel were with Burgoyne. Canadian rangers, loyalists, and Indians were sent to hang on the American rear, while Burgoyne should attack their fr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lovejoy, Elijah parish 1802- (search)
ated widespread excitement, and was the occasion of numerous publications and speeches by anti-slavery leaders. The freedom of the press.—On Dec. 8, 1837, Wendell Phillips delivered a speech at Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the murder of Lovejoy and the freedom of the press, of which the following is the substance: Mr. Chairmana short time. Applause and counter-applause, cries of Take that back, Make him take back recreant, He sha'n't go on till he takes it back, and counter-cries of Phillips or nobody, continued until the pleadings of wellknown citizens had somewhat restored order, when Mr. Phillips resumed.) Fellow-citizens, I cannot take back myMr. Phillips resumed.) Fellow-citizens, I cannot take back my words. Surely the attorney-general, so long and so well known here, needs not the aid of your hisses against one so young as I am—my voice never before heard within these walls . . . Men are continually asking each other, Had Lovejoy a right to resist? Sir, I protest against the question instead of answering it. Lovejoy did
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Martin, Carlos 1843- (search)
Martin, Carlos 1843- Clergyman; born in New York City, in 1843; graduated at Union Theological Seminary in 1869; ordained in the Presbyterian Church; held various pastorates, including one in New York in 1876-90. His publications include English Puritans; Pilgrim fathers; History of the Huguenots; Wendell Phillips; Christian citizenship; William E. Dodge, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phillips, Wendell 1811-1884 (search)
Phillips, Wendell 1811-1884 Orator and reformer; born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 29, 1811; son of John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston; graduated at Harvard College in 1831, and at the Cambridge Law School in 1833, and was admitted to the bar in 1834. At that time the agitation of the slavery question was violent and wide-spread, and in 1836 Mr. Phillips joined the abolitionists. He conceived it such a wrong in the Constitution of the United States in sanctioning slavery that he could noially the origin of this convulsion. . . . I know the danger of a political prophecy—a kaleidoscope of which not even a Yankee can guess the next combination —but for all that, I venture to offer my opinion, that on this continent the Wendell Phillips. system of domestic slavery has received its death-blow. Let me tell you why I think so. Leaving out of view the war with England, which I do not expect, there are but three paths out of this war. One is, the North conquers; the other is, t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State sovereignty. (search)
vociferous in declarations of love for the Union were silent when words might have been effectual to save it. It had been but a few years since a hearing had been refused to abolitionist lecturers in New England; but now the eminent orator, Wendell Phillips, exulting in the terrible faction which was ruling in the North, said: It does not know its own face and calls itself national; but it is not national—it is sectional. The Republican party is a party of the North, pledged against the South.ressible conflict, who was regarded as the power behind the throne of the incoming administration, was a member of the committee above referred to; but he sat in the Senate silent under the challenge of Mr. Douglas, and allowed the language of Mr. Phillips to go for what it was worth. For the first time in the history of the country a sectional candidate for the Presidency had been elected. A majority of the Presidents had been Southern men, but none of them had been elected as such. They h
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
nts in the Patriot War during the autumn......1837 Elijah P. Lovejoy shot while defending his printing-press and paper at Alton, Ill., from the attack of a pro-slavery mob......Nov. 7, 1837 Second session assembles......Dec. 4, 1837 Wendell Phillips's first abolition speech in Faneuil Hall, Boston, to protest against the murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy......Dec. 8, 1837 Col. Zachary Taylor defeats the Seminole Indians at Okeechobee Swamp, Fla.......Dec. 25, 1837 American steamer Caroln to the Continental Congress at Annapolis (Dec. 23, 1783) of his commission as commander-in-chief......Dec. 21, 1883 Steamship City of Columbus wrecked on Devil's Bridge, off Gay Head, Mass.; ninety-seven lives lost......Jan. 18, 1884 Wendell Phillips, born 1811, dies at Boston, Mass.......Feb. 2, 1884 Morrison tariff bill introduced in the House......Feb. 4, 1884 Arnold Henry Guyot, geographer, born 1807, dies at Princeton, N. J.......Feb. 8, 1884 Joint resolution for an expedit
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
Worcester......Sept. 28, 1869 Horace Mann School for the deaf at Boston opened......1869 George Peabody buried at Peabody, Mass......Feb. 8, 1870 Wendell Philipps nominated for governor by the Prohibition party......Aug. 17, 1870 Wendell Phillips nominated for governor by the Labor Reform party......Sept. 8, 1870 Boston University, Boston, chartered 1869; opened......1871 World's peace jubilee and international musical festival begins in Boston......June 17, 1872 Great fire of Daniel Webster (postponed from Oct. 3)......Oct. 11, 1882 Tom Thumb (Charles H. Stratton), born 1838, dies at Middleborough......July 15, 1883 Foreign exhibition opens in Boston, continuing until Jan. 12, 1884......Sept. 3, 1883 Wendell Phillips, born 1811, dies at Boston......Feb. 2, 1884 Charles O'Conor, born 1804, dies at Nantucket......May 12, 1884 Statue of John Harvard unveiled at Cambridge......Oct. 15, 1884 William C. Endicott appointed United States Secretary of Wa
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