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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 2: the Background (search)
ry, according to which slavery was seen as the cornerstone of religion and progress, was the work of the following decade, and the task of Calhoun. The corollaries to this philosophy which involved an abandonment of popular education, and the cutting-off of the South from every intellectual contact with the civilization of Europe, were duly worked out during the next thirty years. By the time the war came there existed a sort of Religion of Slavedom. The Pro-slavery Northern Democrats of Buchanan's time held opinions which would have shocked the most pronounced slaveholders of 1820. During all this time Virginia and the Carolinas — which constituted the Holy Land of the Slave Dispensation — endured a silent exodus and migration on the part of the more liberal spirits. Men even went to New Orleans to escape the tyranny of slave opinion at Charleston. Thus were the souls of Americans squeezed and their tempers made acid. A slightly too ready responsiveness to stimulus of any kind
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 10: foreign influence: summary (search)
rs. Disunion was in their opinion too horrible to be named, and much too terrible to be executed. The mere thought of it shattered Northern nerves. A world without the United States Constitution seemed to Northern men like a world before God's arrival — chaos come again. It was this threat of disunion that carried the Missouri Compromise in 1820, gave the moral victory to the Niillifiers in 1832, carried the Compromise measures of 1850, repealed the Missouri Compromise in 1854, elected Buchanan in 1856, and ruled the fortunes of the Republic in collateral matters between these crises. The North was so accustomed to knuckling under at the sound of that threat that when Secession actually took place in 1860, --when the worst had happened and the Union was irretrievably shattered,--the North begged for more compromises: it proposed to woo the South back through new concessions. It offered another Fugitive Slave Law which should be embodied in the Constitution. The triumphant Rep
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
acy, and J. Q. Adams, 92. Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 113. Boston Tea Party, and the murder of Lovejoy, 130, 131. Bowditch, Henry I., quoted, 19, 20 and n.; 21, 108, 123. Bradford, Gamaliel, 127, 128. Bright, John, quoted, 249; 96, 251. British working-classes, and G., 249, 250; and the Civil War, 250. Broadway Tabernacle, Anti-slavery meeting at. See Rynders Mob. Brougham, Henry, Lord, quoted, in Thompson, 92. Brown, John, and Northern opinion, 257. Buchanan, James, 23, 258. Buffum, Arnold, 71. Bunyan, John, 35. Burleigh, C. C., quoted, in Boston Mob, 116; 73. Buxton, Thomas F., 245, 246. Cairnes, J. E., 251. Calhoun, John C., 7, 23, 140, 158, 193, 208. Canterbury, Conn., Crandall case at, 70 if. Chamberlain, Daniel H., quoted, 243. Channing, William Ellery, and the slavery question, 26 f., 87, 88; and Abolition, 27, 28, 81-86; and Follen, 29, 30; and the theory of association, 31; G. at his church, 31, 32, Ioo, 129, 133, 174, 224.