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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 11: George Thompson, M. P.—1851. (search)
Slave Law as a precursor of disunion and civil war. The other three were the rendition of Thomas Sims, the Christiana (Pa.) armed encounter, in which a slaveholder and his son were slain (Lib. 21 to convict disagreed Lib. 21.94, 99, [183]. or acquitted, in the month of April the case of Thomas Sims plunged the community into fresh and more intense Lib. 21.58, 59, 62. excitement, and this thic Lib. 21.73. vic tory. The N. Y. Herald estimated that the capture, trial, and return of Sims cost the Federal Government nearly $6000, and his owner half as much (Lib. 22: 77). The sum of $9ere shop—a place for buying and selling goods; and I suppose, also, of buying and selling men. Sims was carried off on Saturday, April 12, 1851 (Lib. 21: 62), a week before the anniversary of the bthe Fugitive Slave Law's having just been executed in its spirit and to the letter in the case of Sims. This affront, though immediately withdrawn in the most abject manner, Lib. 21.66. rankled in W
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 14: the Nebraska Bill.—1854. (search)
e was on trial; but also from the suburbs men poured in expressly to defeat the slave-hunter—in one case, that of Worcester, as a Lib. 24.86, 87. town delegation. Other pens must fill in the picture which we can only outline here—how Burns, like Sims, was kept a prisoner in the Court-house; how a mass meeting in Faneuil Hall, on the evening of May 26, was Lib. 24.86. addressed with impassioned eloquence by Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker, urging everything short of violent resistance to surpassed in the world; but he wants to be Chief-Justice, the highest judicial dignity in the country, and would do anything to qualify himself for it. He is not to be confounded with his brother, the Commissioner [George Ticknor Curtis], who sent Sims back [ante, p. 327], and who has been roasted in sundry and divers D. Y. letters [Quincy's Boston correspondence in the Anti-Slavery Standard]. Indictments against both the orators were found in November (Lib. 24.190, 202). On Saturday, Nov. 18,