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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 126 0 Browse Search
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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 2: the Background (search)
as become the most widespread form of metaphysical faith among us. No doubt all nations harbor similar prejudices as to their own institutions; but the nations of Europe have been jostled into liberalism by their contiguity one with another; and the jostling is now being extended to us. During our early history, however, we were inals, so deep is reality. But our present interest in the incident lies in this — that it measures the separation of Massachusetts from the ordinary standards of Europe. Frederick Douglass was almost a man of genius and he looked like a man of genius. His photograph at the time of his escape from slavery might be the photographs 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
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 3: the figure (search)
Chapter 3: the figure The essential quality of all this old society was that it was cold. In the last analysis,after the historical and constitutional questions have been patiently analyzed, after economics and sociology have had their say,the trouble with the American of 1830 was that he had a cold heart. Cruelty, lust, business interest, remoteness from European influence had led to the establishment of an unfeeling civilization. The essential quality of Garrison is that he is hot. This must be borne in mind at every moment as the chief and real quality of Garrison. Disregard the arguments; sink every intellectual conception, every bit of logic and of analysis, and look upon the age:--you see a cold age. Look upon Garrison:--you see a hot coal of fire. He plunges through the icy atmosphere like a burning meteorite from another planet. There is a second contrast. The age was conciliatory: Garrison is aggressive. These two forms of the contrast between Garrison and his
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 4: pictures of the struggle (search)
devour or corrupt all assailants. Garrison attacked it like Perseus, with a ferocity which to this day is thrilling. His eyes, his words, and his sword flash and glitter. And he slew it. He cut off its supplies, he destroyed its reputation in Europe; and he thereby opened the path between the Abolition movement and the conscience of America. Nothing he ever did was more able. Nothing that Frederick the Great, Washington or Napoleon ever did in the field of war was more brilliant than thisSociety, soon to be described. The impertinence of Thompson consisted in his being a foreigner, and this fact played upon the peculiar American weakness — our sensitiveness to foreign opinion. He comes here from the dark corrupt institutions of Europe, said Mr. Sprague in Faneuil Hall, to enlighten us upon the rights of man and the moral duties of our own condition. Received by our hospitality, he stands here upon our soil, protected by our laws, and hurls firebrands, arrows and death into t
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 6: Retrospect and prospect. (search)
ir cause, then the way of the reformers would have been hard. This would have happened, perhaps, if Anti-slavery in America had been a pioneer cause, a new light leading the world. But our Anti-slavery cause was a mere means of catching up with Europe. The moral power of humanity at large prevented South Carolina from smiling at Abolition. The slave-owners trembled because they were a part of the thing which criticized them. Massachusetts and South Carolina were parts of that modern world ll. The timidity of our public life and of our private conversation is a tradition from those times, which fifty years of freedom have not sufficed to efface. The morbid sensitiveness of the American to new political ideas has been a mystery to Europe. We cannot bear to hear a proposition plainly put;--or let me say, we are only recently beginning to cast off our hothouse condition, and to bear the sun and wind of the natural world. I do not know anything which measures the timidity of the
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 9: Garrison and Emerson. (search)
pled for lack of a philosopher; and Emerson's influence has always stood in need of more animal life as a vehicle to float it towards mankind. Let us review the points at which the careers of the two men touched each other; remembering all the time that any age is a unity, that all men who live in it are members of each other, and that the Unconscious is the important part of life. Emerson, after the loss of his first wife, followed by a breakdown in health and a year of gloomy travel in Europe, returned to Boston in 1833, a frail man of thirty, with a theological training, the tastes of a recluse, and an immense, unworldly ambition. To live in a village, to write in his journal, to walk in the woods and ruminate, --such was to be his existence. The organic reticence of Emerson has all but concealed the strong current of purpose that ran beneath the apparent futility of his external life. IHe was indeed a man of iron; and both he and Garrison might be compared to Ignatius Loyol
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Epilogue (search)
which America was returning to the family of European nations from the exile which her connection w to analyze America nor define her relation to Europe. I will only point out our most dreadful defenited States to-day. If you start anywhere in Europe and trace your way back to ancient Egypt, you continuity. There has been no real break in European culture. During the dark ages the most visibcowed the world. That element has endured in European education in the form of a reverence for the fall into casual conversation with almost any European, you will feel the influence of these vistas bleakness of American life as contrasted with European life. I think that the emotions must in youtbarbarian than his Gothic ancestor who invaded Europe in the fourth century A. D., and whose magnifirgotten among us; much is unknown that in any European country would be familiar. For instance, thpe of character is very rare. Had he lived in Europe he would have been classified at once among th[1 more...]