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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 4: no union with slaveholders!1844. (search)
Bahama Islands; taken back in irons to Pensacola and there jailed, chained to a ringbolt for fifteen days; afterwards put in the pillory for an hour, and pelted with rotten eggs; finally, by order of a Federal court, branded on the right hand with S. S. Lib. 15.115, 132. for slave-stealer—lucky to escape at length with his life. There was also the Rev. Charles T. Torrey, who, two years before, being a newspaper correspondent in Washington, had exercised his Constitutional right to visit Annapolis to report a slaveholders' convention, was Jan. 12, 1842; Life of Torrey, pp. 91-104; Lib. 12.10, 14. recognized, nearly lynched, and, upon his room at the tavern being searched, arrested for his temporary security, but on trial was released on bail. This treatment led him to engage in several hazardous attempts to run slaves off from the border States, and in June, 1844, he was again Life of Torrey, p. 126; Lib. 14.107, 119. in a Maryland jail—this time in Baltimore—on a charge that shu<
e banquets, public and private—one thing Kossuth saw: the greatest opposition to him came from the dominant South which he had humbled himself to placate—which neither wanted his glittering generalities of freedom to ring through its borders, nor courted a European war with a chance of a slave insurrection. When this melancholy truth dawned upon him, he flattered himself that his actual presence would disarm prejudice, and arranged for a journey down the Mississippi. Proceeding by way of Annapolis, Baltimore, Harrisburg, and Pittsburg, he was engaged in canvassing Ohio during the month of February, 1852, when Mr. Garrison launched against him (in part) in the Liberator, and directly (in full) in pamphlet Lib. 22.29. form, a Letter which fixed the attention of the American press, and which no biographer or admirer of Kossuth can neglect. Letter to Louis Kossuth concerning Freedom and Slavery in the U. S. Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1852. 8vo, pp. 112. This document, put forth in