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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 7: the man of action (search)
eroism and of the folly of attempting to undermine the slave power from within. The italics are mine. But why do Garrison's children think it folly for a Southerner to agitate against slavery in Kentucky? It seems to me that to do so was right. I believe that the agitation of Clay in Kentucky somehow went to a spot in the slavery question that nothing else could have reached. It affected Garrison himself as nothing else ever affected him: it softened him. It was the conduct of Clay and Rankin (another Southerner) which caused Garrison to offer a resolution at the Cincinnati convention in 1853, in which he stated that the Abolitionists of the country were as much interested in the welfare of the slaveholders as they were in the elevation of the slaves. His habitual attitude towards the slaveholders had always been, We do not acknowledge them to be within the pale of Christianity, of Republicanism, of humanity. This we say dispassionately, and not for the sake of using strong lan
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
20, 259. Pease, Elizabeth, 246. Pennsylvania Hall, Phila., burning of, 119, 133. Pharisees, Christ's rebuke to, 181-84; their offenses mild compared with the atrocities of today, 185, 186. Philanthropist, the, 108. Phillips, Wendell, at Fanueil Hall, 129, 130-32; effect of his speech, 132, 133; quoted, 180, 198; 108, 123, 165, 210, 249. Pierpont, John, 43. Polk, James K., 204. Presbyterians, and Abolition, 208. Pro-Slavery Democrats, Northern, 23. Quincy, Edmund, 210. Rankin, John, 160. Reformer, the, 54. Republican Party, formation of, 142, 143,258. Rhodes, James F., 142. Richmond Whig, quoted, 104, 119. Roman Catholics, and Abolition, 200, 207. Ross, Abner, 187. Rynders, Isaiah, his history, 203, 204. Rynders Mob, the, 203ff. Savonarola, Girolamo, 193. Scott, Dred, case of, 257. Sewall, Samuel E., 80. Seward, W. H., 143, 1144. Slave, the, beginning of G.'s devotion to, cause of, 42. Slave-holding classes, manhood crushed out of, 22.