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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 4: pictures of the struggle (search)
rican Anti-slavery. Thompson was marked for assassination and kidnapping; and a gibbet was erected for him in Boston. It was Thompson whom the mob were in search of when they caught Garrison at the meeting of the Female Antislavery Society, soon to be described. The impertinence of Thompson consisted in his being a foreigner, and this fact played upon the peculiar American weakness — our sensitiveness to foreign opinion. He comes here from the dark corrupt institutions of Europe, said Mr. Sprague in Faneuil Hall, to enlighten us upon the rights of man and the moral duties of our own condition. Received by our hospitality, he stands here upon our soil, protected by our laws, and hurls firebrands, arrows and death into the habitations of our neighbors, and friends, and brothers; and when he shall have kindled a conflagration which is sweeping in desolation over the land, he has only to embark for his own country, and there look serenely back with indifference or exultation upon t
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 5: the crisis (search)
continuous panic. This had shredded them into spectres. It is quite true that there was a spiritual reign of terror at this epoch, a terror which intimately affected all classes, and the Abolitionists' phrase is thus truer than it seemed. Peleg Sprague, one of Massachusetts' most distinguished men, a United States Senator and former Congressman, and a thoroughly representative mouthpiece of the Conservative classes at the North, spoke as follows at the memorable Pro-slavery meeting in Faneuwishes of members from the South. There is something about 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 Bostonians, spoke as follows: I deny that any body of men can lawfully associate for the purpose of undermining, more than for overthrowing, the government of our sister States. The
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
, 253 if.; influence of, North and South, 254. And see Colonization Society, Crandall, P., Lane Seminary, Lovejoy, E. P. Slavery in West Indies, abolition of, 244. Smith, Goldwin, 251. South Carolina, 23, 137. Spencer, Herbert, 251. Sprague, Peleg, quoted, 95, 96; at Faneuil Hall, IiO, III. Storrs, George, 107, 108. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 120, 187, 188. Sturgis, William, 132. Sumner, Charles, 123, 140. Sumter, Fort, fired on, 259. Taney, Roger B., 140. Tappan, Arthur, 47, 67, 72,106, 107. Taylor, Zachary, 200, 209, 210, 21I. Texas, Annexation of, 138, 139, 155, 174, 238, 256. Thatcher, Judge, 50. Thompson, George, in U. S., 92 ff.; S. J. May and Sprague quoted on, 93-96; what he stood for, 96; plot to tar and feather, 113; 107, 118, 227, 245,247, 251. Ticknor, George, 199. Tocsin of Liberty, the, quoted, 178. Todd, Francis, libeled by G., 46, 47. Tuckerman, Bayard, Life of Wm. Jay, quoted, 151. Turner, Nat, heads Slave Reb