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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
the piratical deck of the Acorn,--Is this Massachusetts liberty? What, then, is the use of sucht bound the hapless victim to the altar of Massachusetts criminal law. Yes, let them pass. The se who have taken refuge under the laws of Massachusetts, what they must expect here. The time wagitive Slave Bill. The time may come when Massachusetts may not be willing to have her cities scenut you are harbingers of a better hour for Massachusetts than this day twelve months saw darken ovehat it will. We are to speak to practical Massachusetts. I do not shrink from going before the fa, and the workingmen,--the thinking men of Massachusetts,--and urging upon them the consideration torrow. When we asked the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to interfere in Sims's behalf, on the grout triumphs of the antislavery sentiment of Massachusetts? The list is short, we know it by heart. ll chance of harm. God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts! How coldly, often, does the old p[5 more...]
Waterloo, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
There is one other motive; that is, fear. Cobbett and his fellows gathered the people of Great Britain in public meetings of two hundred thousand men; and though the Duke of Wellington ordered his Scotch Greys to rough-grind their swords, as at Waterloo, he feared to order them drawn in the face of two hundred thousand Englishmen. That gathering was for their own rights. Cross the Channel, and you come to the Irish question. How was that dealt with? By fear. When Ireland got no sympathy frtiply this individual agony into three millions; multiply that into centuries; and that into all the relations of father and child, husband and wife; heap on all the deep moral degradation both of the oppressor and the oppressed,--and tell me if Waterloo or Thermopylae can claim one tear from the eye even of the tenderest spirit of mercy, compared with this daily system of hell amid the most civilized and Christian people on the face of the earth! No, I confess I am not a non-resistant. The
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 7
s of the Commonwealth suffered a great, a melancholy defeat. On that day, unexpectedly to many, a man was carried back to slavery from the capital of the State. It was an event which surprised some of our fellow-citizens, and all the rest of New England, which relied too fondly on the reputation Massachusetts had won as an antislavery community. Either the flavor of our old religion, or some remnant of the spirit of 1649 and 1776, had made the city of the Puritans a house of refuge to the fug priest, might turn from such a scene and congratulate each other, saying, , Our mountain stands strong ; but we knew that emotions were stronger than statutes, more lasting than ledgers, and not to be frozen down even by creeds, and that all New England would erelong gather itself to answer the last sad question of this hapless victim, as he stepped on the piratical deck of the Acorn,--Is this Massachusetts liberty? What, then, is the use of such a celebration as this? It seems to me the
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
himself, and make one last appeal to the humane instincts of his fellow-men. Friends, it is time something should be said on these points. Twenty-six cases--twenty-six slave cases, under this last statute, have taken place in the single State of Pennsylvania. I do not believe one man in a hundred who hears me supposed there were half a dozen cases there. So silently, so much a matter of course, so much without any public excitement, have those slaves been surrendered Should the record be many of them might you open in these Northern States within the last two years How many of these utterly indescribable scenes might you have witnessed within that brief period I This law has executed itself. Twenty-six have been sent back from Pennsylvania; only one from Boston; only a dozen, perhaps, from New York. Yes; but, in the mean time, the dread that they might be seized has broken up hundreds of happy families. It has been executed: and when I remember that Northern traitor who made i
Plymouth County (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
chusetts. I hope I am mistaken; I shall be glad to be proved incorrect; but I do not believe there is any such antislavery sentiment here as is able to protect a fugitive on whom the government has once laid its hand. We were told this afternoon, from this platform, that there were one hundred and fifty men in one town ready to come with their muskets to Boston,--all they waited for was an invitation. I heard, three weeks before the Sims case, that there were a hundred in one town in Plymouth County pledged to shoulder their muskets in such a cause. We saw nothing of them. I heard, three weeks after the Sims rendition, that there were two hundred more in the city of Worcester ready to have come, had they been invited. We saw nothing of them. On such an occasion, from the nature of the case, there cannot be much previous concert; the people must take their own cause into their own hands. Intense earnestness of purpose, pervading large classes, must instinctively perceive the cr
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ste,--that is war,--weigh it now against some young, trembling girl sent to the auction-block, some man like that taken from our court-house and carried back into Georgia; multiply this individual agony into three millions; multiply that into centuries; and that into all the relations of father and child, husband and wife; heap on rifice, I have no doubt that it would have a wholesome effect. [Great applause.] Is there a man here who would, if he had arms in his hands, either himself go to Georgia, or let any one near and dear to him go there, without sending somebody before him to a lighter and cooler place than a Georgian plantation? I am not dealing wgiance. Lord Brougham's Debate on the Irish Coercion Bill, 1833. Very well. My case stands by itself. It is for me to decide to-night whether I will go back to Georgia to-morrow. It is no special comfort to assure me that, half a century hence, somebody will go down to Faneuil Hall,-- some Robert C. Winthrop, perhaps, converted
Bacoli (Italy) (search for this): chapter 7
his own mother into slavery for our dear Union; and was he not rewarded by our national government with a chaplaincy in the navy,--as most men thought to secure him a trip to the Mediterranean, and repose his wearied virtue? Where could public rumor more appropriately send him than to that very spot on the Naples coast, where his great and only exemplar, Nero, devoted his mother to a kinder fate than this Christian imitator designed for a venerable relative Could he have passed his life at Bauli, the genius of the place would have protected her well-deserving son, and all had been well. But here a certain ruba-dub agitation had done so much mischief, that even the Unitarian denomination could not uphold its eminent leader till he had explained that he did not mean his venerable relative, he only meant his son! How clear the lesson to that son not to treat others as they treat - him.since then he might be led to do what even his father deems inhuman, namely, return his venerable re
Berkshire (Mass.) (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
igilance Committee of Mechanics in Boston, as in our case of April, 1851. Two lanterns on the North Church steeple telegraphed the fact to the country Revere and Prescott, as they rode from house to house in the gray light of that April morning, could tell little what others would do, they flung into each house the startling announcement, The red-coats are coming I, and rode on. None that day issued orders, none obeyed aught but his own soul. Though Massachusetts rocked from Barnstable to Berkshire, when the wire flashed over the land the announcement that a slave lay chained in the Boston court-house, there was no answer from the antislavery feeling of the State. It is sad, therefore, but it seems to me honest, to say to the fugitive in Boston, or on his way, that, if the government once seize him, he cannot be protected here. I think we are bound, an common kindness and honesty, to tell them that there are but two ways that promise any refuge from the horrors of a return to bonda
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
was expedient to work through them both, if we could. Finding it impossible, we let experience dictate our measures. We came out. Consistency-consistency bade us come out. Consistency,--we cannot always sail due east, though our destination be Europe. It is no violation of consistency, therefore, (if that were of any consequence,) for us to adopt a measure like this, though it was not at first contemplated. I go further. I do not believe that, if we should live to the longest period Providence ever allots to the life of a human being, we shall see the total abolition of slavery, unless it comes in some critical conjuncture of national affairs, when the slave, taking advantage of a crisis in the fate of his masters, shall dictate his own terms. How did French slavery go down? How did the French slave-trade go down? When Napoleon came back from Elba, when his fate hung trembling in the balance, and he wished to gather around him the sympathies of the liberals of Europe, he no s
Barnstable, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
out from the Vigilance Committee of Mechanics in Boston, as in our case of April, 1851. Two lanterns on the North Church steeple telegraphed the fact to the country Revere and Prescott, as they rode from house to house in the gray light of that April morning, could tell little what others would do, they flung into each house the startling announcement, The red-coats are coming I, and rode on. None that day issued orders, none obeyed aught but his own soul. Though Massachusetts rocked from Barnstable to Berkshire, when the wire flashed over the land the announcement that a slave lay chained in the Boston court-house, there was no answer from the antislavery feeling of the State. It is sad, therefore, but it seems to me honest, to say to the fugitive in Boston, or on his way, that, if the government once seize him, he cannot be protected here. I think we are bound, an common kindness and honesty, to tell them that there are but two ways that promise any refuge from the horrors of a re
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