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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 7: first Western tour.—1847. (search)
ib. 17.22, 34, 38, 43, 149. Northern States against any further extension of the area controlled by the Slave Power. Even the State of Delaware was among these protestants, and made so near an Lib. 17.43. approach to enacting gradual emancipation for herself Lib. 17.42. that Calhoun, forecasting the balance of power in Lib. 17.34. Congress, reckoned her on the side of the free States. Significant, though abortive, movements of the same kind were also made during the year in Kentucky and West Lib. 17.174, 194. Virginia, and these facts effectually dispose of the silly allegation that the abolitionists hindered spontaneous emancipation on the part of the South. Henry Clay so far chimed in with the sentiment of his native State as to oppose, in a public speech at Lexington, the Nov. 13, 1847; Lib. 17.189, 193. dismemberment of Mexico, or the acquisition of territory for slaveholding propagandism. Other symptoms that the occupation of the City of Sept. 13-15, 1847. Mexico by t