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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
nds G.'s lecture, 354, abuses Cropper, 355, denied the Wesleyan Chapel, 356; catechized by Wilberforce, 1.359, 372; meetings to form Brit. Col. Soc., 365, 367; complaint of persecution, 355, 371; attacks G.'s character, 355, 366; avoids Exeter Hall meeting, 377, goes to Ireland, 378; accuses G. of vilifying America, 380; failure, 510; return to U. S., 416; his Quaker views and G.'s, 2.158; opposes rebuilding Penn. Hall, 218; brother-inlaw of Rev. Dickey, 249. Crewdson, W. D., 2.368. Crittenden, John Jordan [1787-1863], 2.74. Crocker, —, Rev., 2.107. Crocker, William Goss [d. Liberia, 1844], missionary, friendship for G., 1.55, 56. Cropper, Capt., 2.361. Cropper, James [d. Feb. 26, 1840, in 67th year], English agent for Genius, 1.146; home described, 349; tribute to Capt. Stuart, 262; opposes Colon. Soc., 300, 369; cheered by A. S. organization in U. S., 328; aided by Thoughts on Colon., 329; G.'s introduction, 342, family reception of G., 348, first meeting with G., 349
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 19 (search)
-stealing takes rights and neighbor too. After all this, Mr. Dana objects to the Crittenden compromise. Something short of that he can allow, because he does not call these other offers, Adams's and such like, compromises It seems he objects more to the word than the thing. But the Crittenden proposal he is set against, for a reason which may strike you singular in a man willing to return slaves; but then we are bundles of inconsistencies, all of us. But this slave-hunter cannot abide Crittenden, because, listen! because he thinks an investment in dishonor is a bad investment! An investment in infidelity to the principles of liberty is a bad investment! Hunt slaves? Yes, it is a duty. Give some territory to slavery, and peril the Republican party Never, it is a bad investment ! De Quincey says: If once a man indulges in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; from robbing he comes next to drinking, and from that to ill manners and procrastination. Once enter
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 18: the irrepressible Conflict.—1858. (search)
making the Lecompton Constitution the basis of admission to the Union. He reminded them that the Supreme Court had adjudged that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the Constitution of the United States, Lib. 28.28. and that Kansas is therefore at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina. The popular demonstrations against this policy, the Lib. 28.27, 28, 48. resistance promised by the Legislature of Kansas, Lib. 28.34. Douglas's adverse report in the Senate, Crittenden's attempt to Lib. 28.59; Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, 2.558. secure submission of the Lecompton Constitution to the popular vote—were all in vain. The two houses disagreeing, a conference committee adopted the bill contrived by William H. English of Indiana, and on April Lib. 28.75; Wilson, 2.564, 565. 30 the enabling act was passed. The first section of Article 7 of the Constitution embedded in the act read as follows: The right of property is before and higher tha
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 1: no union with non-slaveholders!—1861. (search)
f the non-extension of slavery, and appointed delegates to the so-called Peace Congress (convened in Washington in February) who were utterly subservient to the demands there made by the border slave States. Had the Senators and Representatives from the seceded States only retained their seats in Congress, they could easily have insured the adoption of the measures recommended by this Peace Congress, and substantially embodied in the Compromise bill which bore the name of its author, Mr. Crittenden of Kentucky; and the guarantees thus secured to it would have given slavery a fresh lease of life and power. They included the admission of slavery Greeley's American Conflict, 1.376, 377, 399-402. to the Territories south of latitude 36° 30′; forbade Congress to abolish the institution in places under its exclusive jurisdiction, and made it virtually perpetual in the District of Columbia; prohibited interference with the inter-State slave trade; required the United States to compensat
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 27: services for education.—prison discipline.—Correspondence.— January to July, 1845.—age, 34. (search)
their more worthy countryman to lavish this important patronage on a foreigner. I am so anxious that Senators should rightly understand this that I shall be tempted to address you a letter on the subject, which you may read to Mr. Berrien, Mr. Crittenden, or any others you may think it not improper to approach in this way. Hillard has already written to Mr. Bates; so has Mr. Lawrence to Mr. Crittenden. Mr. Dix, the new Senator from New York, I am told, is a gentleman of taste in art and letteMr. Crittenden. Mr. Dix, the new Senator from New York, I am told, is a gentleman of taste in art and letters. He is a warm friend of Crawford. Will Texas be admitted? We hear to-day that the chances are against the present resolutions. If Mr. Peters is still in Washington, remember me to him. Ever affectionately yours, Charles Sumner. To Charlemagne Tower he wrote, March 30, 1845:— At this moment, our City Government is imbecile,—being the miserable offspring of Native Americanism. It has so little of the confidence of the people that it cannot do much under the new Act; An
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
ided the petition, it was thought at the time, as his position, if a candidate, might have been embarrassed by granting it. The President was favorably impressed with the merits of the case, but doubted his power to release parties held for non-payment of fines which at least in part were payable to the owners of the slaves. At his suggestion, Sumner submitted a brief, Works, vol. III. pp. 49-72. Sumner consulted George Bemis on the points to be made. which the President referred to Mr. Crittenden, the Attorney-General, who, reserving any expression on the merits of the case, affirmed the President's power in the premises. The President acted promptly, and in fulfilment of a promise made to Sumner communicated to him a favorable decision in a note dated August 11, and signed by himself, stating that he had already executed a pardon. Further process to hold the men being apprehended, Sumner hurried to the jail, and taking them in a carriage, put them in charge of a friend, who co
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
n personalities, and became so offensive that a Southern senator (Crittenden) called him to order. In this personal debate, during which the e witnesses. Pearce's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1355; Crittenden's, p. 1359. There were several persons in the chamber, most of wh N. Y., Oct. 13, 1881, and Murray at Goshen, N. Y., late in 1885. Crittenden, sitting in conversation with Pearce, another senator, whose seatts to stop the assault, openly and emphatically condemning it. Crittenden's testimony, Congressional Globe, p. 1359; Toombs's, pp. 1355, 13's, p. 1356. Holland, a doorkeeper, came up at the same time with Crittenden, and as an officer of the Senate commanded the peace. Holland' violence to any one who should befriend Sumner; and encountering Crittenden, who was trying to get between the parties, was apparently about ons, warning off with threats Holland the doorkeeper, as well as Crittenden, crying out, Let them alone! Gorman's testimony, Congressional
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 43: return to the Senate.—the barbarism of slavery.—Popular welcomes.—Lincoln's election.—1859-1860. (search)
ation of Democratic States. He was assigned to the committee on foreign relations, the place to which he naturally belonged from the first, with Seward as his only Republican associate; the other members were Mason, Douglas, Slidell, Polk, and Crittenden, with only the last of whom had he any personal relations. He was welcomed by the Republican senators; but there was no change for the better on the part of the Democratic senators, Northern or Southern. Notwithstanding what he had passed thof Texas, ill-favored by nature and not improved by art, who kept walking about, and doing his best to disconcert the speaker by looks and attitudes. Hunter, as usual, listened with respect, and maintained the decorum which becomes a senator. Crittenden, who thought to avert the dread issue by compromise, sat in front of Sumner, with eyes steadily fixed on him, and anxious countenance, as if imploring him to desist, and not make a peaceful settlement between North and South impossible. Of S
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 12: editor of the New Yorker. (search)
ryest, hardest speaker I ever listened to. The flow of his ideas reminded me of a barrel filled with pebbles, each of which must find great difficulty in escaping from the very solidity and number of those pressing upon it and impeding its natural motion. Mr. Calhoun, though far from being a handsome, is still a very remarkable personage; but Mr. Benton has the least intellectual countenance I ever saw on a senator. Mr. Webster was not in his place. * * * * The best speech was that of Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky; That man is not appreciated so highly as he should and must be. He has a rough readiness, a sterling good sense, a republican manner and feeling, and a vein of biting, though homely satire, which will yet raise him to distinction—in the National Councils. Were Greeley and Co. making their fortune meanwhile? Far from it. To edit a paper well is one thing; to make it pay as a business is another. The New Yorker had soon become a famous, an admired, and an influential paper
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 17: the Tribune's second year. (search)
tely to his credit, and confirms us in the opinion we had long since formed of the soundness of his head and the goodness of his, heart. In the summer of 1842, Mr. Greeley made an extensive tour, visiting Washington, Mount Vernon, Poultney, Westhaven, Londonderry, Niagara, and the home of his parents in Pennsylvania, from all of which he wrote letters to the Tribune. His letters from Washington, entitled Glances at the Senate, gave agreeable sketches of Calhoun, Preston, Benton, Evans, Crittenden, Wright, and others. Silas Wright he thought the keenest logician in the Senate, the Ajax of plausibility, the Talleyrand of the forum. Calhoun he described as the compactest speaker in the Senate; Preston, as the most forcible declaimer; Evans, as the most dexterous and diligent legislator; Benton, as an individual, gross and burly in person, of countenance most unintellectual, in manner pompous and inflated, in matter empty, in conceit a giant, in influence a cipher! From Mount Ver
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