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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 1 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Reply of Mrs. Child. (search)
ained the common Southern prejudice against them. But her own observation so deeply impressed her with the enormities of slavery, that she was impelled to publish a book, called The Autobiography of a female slave. I read it with thrilling interest; but some of the scenes made my nerves quiver so painfully that I told her I hoped they were too highly colored. She shook her head sadly, and replied: I am sorry to say that every incident in the book has come within my own knowledge. St. George Tucker, Judge and Professor of Law in Virginia, speaking of the legalized murder of runaways, said: Such are the cruelties to which a state of slavery gives birth — such the horrors to which the human mind is capable of being reconciled by its adoption. Alluding to our struggle in ‘76, he said: While we proclaimed our resolution to live free or die, we imposed on our fellow-men of different complexion a slavery ten thousand times worse than the utmost extremity of the oppressions of which we
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
e between black and white should blush to advance. Carey, it will be remembered, was a native of Ireland. Compare Dr. Channing's letter to Miss Aikin of Dec. 29, 1831 (p. 113 of Correspondence ): But do you know how slaveholders reconcile themselves to their guilt? . . . Our slaves subsist more comfortably than the populace and peasantry of Europe. . . . I acknowledge the sophistry, but mourn that it should have so much foundation. Notice also that Mathew Carey had published in 1796 St. George Tucker's Dissertation on Slavery; with a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it in the State of Virginia, bearing this epigraph from Montesquieu: Slavery not only violates the Laws of Nature and of Civil Society, it also wounds the best forms of government: in a Democracy, where all men are equal, slavery is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution. whose dictum was: We may, therefore, fairly conclude the object of Ibid., p. 83. immediate, universal emancipation wholly unattainable,
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
began his version of the song in the dawn's early light, sketched out the remainder on the way to land, copied it on arrival at his Baltimore hotel, and saw it in circulation as a broadside on the next day. At the outset it met with only moderate popularity, being omitted, as a universal favourite never could have been, from many important song books during the next twenty years. Not until the Civil War was it widely accepted as a national anthem, and then came two more paraphrases in St. George Tucker's attempt to requisition it for the Confederacy in The Southern cross and in Oliver Wendell Holmes's added stanza. Here are three types, the common factor being that the music always provided the pattern for the words. Yankee Doodle was a sort of ballad, loaded on a music vehicle which has rolled through the decades without its burden. Hail Columbia, written for a march tune, was made public in propitious circumstances and achieved an immediate vogue, but is seldom sung today exce
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Secession at Ashland. (search)
Secession at Ashland. --The citizens of Ashland, Hanover county, made arrangements for raising a secession flag last Saturday, and St. George Tucker was to make a speech on the occasion. We suppose the affair came off according to the programme.
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Secession in Hanover. --On Tuesday, the 12th inst., the good people of old Hanover assembled at their Court-House and gave expression to their sentiments in the existing crisis, by the erection of a secession flag.--Amid the approving shouts of the crowd, Mr. James Lyons, of Henrico, in eloquent strains, addressed the people, hailing the flag as a happy omen of a purer and better feeling in Virginia. He was followed in brief speeches by Capt. George W. Bassett, St. George Tucker, Chastain White, Dr. E. S. Talley, John H. Taliaferro, and Dr. John B. Fontaine, who were present, breathing the right spirit and bearing decided testimony to the unanimity of the secession sentiment in Hanover. The glorious old county which was a pioneer in the cause of Freedom in 1776, has resolved to be among the first in asserting the rights of the South, and in a firm determination to maintain them.
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hanging "Traitors." (search)
Capt. Cabell's Card. --It will be seen by a notice in another column that Capt. J. Grattan Cabell contradicts the rumor that had somehow or other gained currency, that the death of young Henry. St. George Tucker, a member of the Governor's Mounted Guard, was caused by "unnecessary exposure" while on duty. Even if Capt. Cabell did not contradict the rumor on his own authority, it is sufficiently refuted by the circumstances connected with the affair narrated by him. We deem it hardly possible that the parties who started the rumor referred to could have designed to reflect, save by implication, on the commanding officer of the Guard.
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
d Lieut; Wm. L. Smith, 2d Lieut. Virginia Life Guard, Company B.--John S. Walker, Captain; Norman S. Walker, 1st Lt.; A. M. Lyon, 2 Lieut; J Mel Willis, Junior 2d. Patrick Henry Rifles, Company C.--B. M. Morrison, Captain; Geo. B. Swiff, 1st Lieut; B. B. Bumpass, 2d Lieut; Thomas G. Bumpass, Junior 2d. Henrico Grays, Company D.--Abuer Va. England, Captain; Douglas B. Benson, 1st Lieut; J. T. Vannerson, 2d Lieut; E. M. Dunndvant, Junior 2d. Ashland Grays, Company E.--St. George Tucker, Captain; Chastain H. Taylor, 1st Lt; John C. Govers, 2d Lieut; Henry C. Jones, Junior 2d. Emmett Guard, Company F, declined electing officers, and they will be appointed by the president. The old officers remain in command. Henrico Southern Guard, Company G.--Hamet Clarke, Captain; Joe M. Gunn, 1st Lt; John H. Allen, 2d Lieut; J. K. Russell, Junior 2d. Young Guard, Company H.--Campbell Lawson, Captain; Geo. Charters, 1st Lieut; George W. Berry, 2d Lieut; Charles Bailie
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
There was a time when nearly all the intelligence of Virginia was opposed to slavery. Jefferson has left his opinion upon record; Washington provided in his will for the emancipation of his slaves, and St. George Tucker (the elder) devoted to the subject sixty pages of his notes upon Blackstone, in which he decidedly condemned it. Indeed, so general was the feeling that it may be said all Virginia, during the first thirty years after the Revolution, was anti-slavery. The only stumbling block in the way of emancipation seems to have been the difficulty of disposing of the emancipated negroes. Jefferson himself thought the two races ought not to live together. That great, but eccentric genius, John Randolph of Roanoke, though one among the largest slaveholders in the State, and though wont to resent any interference In 1803 he was chairman of a committee upon a memorial from Indiana to dispense, temporarily, with the ordinance of 1787 so far as it was applicable to that Sta