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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 3
was formed, including the President of the United States, the heads of departments, and other publie surveillance of the army and navy of the United States is a question which we leave with the Presund to respect We saw a senator of the United States, world-known and honored for his learning,or Sumner for his motion to erase from the United States flags the record of the battles of the civto secure to the colored population of the United States all the rights and privileges which belongfference to any class of the people of the United States. Apart from all considerations of justicefuture prospects of the Indian race in the United States. The old policy, however well intended, otrymen two centuries ago be applied to the United States, Go on, hand in hand, O peoples, never to peaceful overture to the President of the United States. It seems to me that every true patriot wfavorably conditioned than England and the United States for making the holy experiment of arbitrat[3 more...]
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
8th Month, 1869. I have received thy letter inviting me to attend the Convention in behalf of Woman's Suffrage, at Newport, R. I., on the 25th inst. I do not see how it is possible for me to accept the invitation; and, were I to do so, the state oIn the mean time the New England Yearly Meeting was agitated by the same question. Slaves were imported into Boston and Newport, and Friends became purchasers, and in some instances were deeply implicated in the foreign traffic. In 1716, the month and pride of opinion gave way before his testimony of love. The New England Yearly Meeting then, as now, was held in Newport, on Rhode Island. In the year 1760 John Woolman, in the course of a religious visit to New England, attended that meetit of the excellent Hopkins to denounce the slave-trade and slavery as hateful in the sight of God to his congregation at Newport were enacted in the full view and hearing of the annual convocation of Friends, many of whom were themselves partakers i
Scarboro (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
d the State of Pennsylvania, Penn, Lloyd, Pastorius, Logan, and Story; men who were masters of the scientific knowledge and culture of their age, hospitable to all truth, and open to all light, and who in some instances anticipated the result of modern research and critical inquiry. It was Thomas Story, a minister of the Society of Friends, and member of Penn's Council of State, who, while on a religious visit to England, wrote to James Logan that he had read on the stratified rocks of Scarborough, as from the finger of God, proofs of the immeasurable age of our planet, and that the days of the letter of Scripture could only mean vast spaces of time. May Haverford emulate the example of these brave but reverent men, who, in investigating nature, never lost sight of the Divine Ideal, and who, to use the words of Fenelon, Silenced themselves to hear in the stillness of their souls the inexpressible voice of Christ. Holding fast the mighty truth of the Divine Immanence, the Inward
France (France) (search for this): chapter 3
tary glory, nor magnificent palaces and monuments, nor splendor of court nobility, nor clerical pomp. Rather, he says, O France, may no beggar tread thy plains, no sick or suffering man ask in vain for relief; in all thy hamlets may every young womall going on. My sympathies are with Jules Favre and Leon Gambetta in their efforts to establish and sustain a republic in France, but I confess that the investment of Paris by King William seems to me the logical sequence of the bombardment of Rome bies of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands, the murders of St. Bartholomew's day, the unspeakable agonies of the South of France under the demoniac rule of revolution! All history, black with crime and red with blood, is but an awful commentary upone French army became, as their journals abundantly testify, deeply interested in the Society of Friends, and took back to France with them something of its growing anti-slavery sentiment. Especially was this the case with Jean Pierre Brissot, the th
Paramaribo (Surinam) (search for this): chapter 3
inconveniences have undoubtedly resulted from the emancipation of the laborers; and many years must elapse before the relations of the two heretofore antagonistic classes can be perfectly adjusted and their interests brought into entire harmony. But that freedom is not to be held mainly accountable for the depression of the British colonies is obvious from the fact that Dutch Surinam, where the old system of slavery remains in its original rigor, is in an equally depressed condition. The Paramaribo Neuws en Advertentie Blad, quoted in the Jamaica Gazette, says, under date of January 2, 1850: Around us we hear nothing but complaints. People seek and find matter in everything to picture to themselves the lot of the place in which they live as bitterer than that of any other country. Of a large number of flourishing plantations, few remain that can now be called such. So deteriorated has property become within the last few years, that many of these estates have not been able to defr
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 3
he first account we have of negro slaves in New England is from the pen of John Josselyn. Nineteen period a traffic was commenced between the New England Colonies and that of Barbadoes; and it is n of Agawam, the earliest poetical satire of New England. One of its provisions was as follows:— casionally part of a cargo found its way to New England, where the wholesome old laws against man-sfore us. For what is the priest even of our New England but a living testimony to the truth of the h me how to pray. A venerable and worthy New England clergyman, on his death-bed, just before ted to the Maryland, Carolina, Virginia, and New England colonies. The act of banishment enforced aed prohibiting Friends within the limits of New England Yearly Meeting from engaging in or countenalman, in the course of a religious visit to New England, attended that meeting. He saw the horriblthe formation of the abolition societies of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Vir[12 more...]
East India (search for this): chapter 3
e slaves to the Greeks; and of the infidel Hobbes, that every man, being by nature at war with every other man, has a perpetual right to reduce him to servitude if he has the power. It is the cardinal doctrine of what John Quincy Adams has very properly styled the Satanic school of philosophy,—the ethics of an old Norse sea robber or an Arab plunderer of caravans. It is as widely removed from the sweet humanities and unselfish benevolence of Christianity as the faith and practice of the East India Thug or the New Zealand cannibal. Our author does not, however, take us altogether by surprise. He has before given no uncertain intimations of the point towards which his philosophy was tending. In his brilliant essay upon Francia of Paraguay, for instance, we find him entering with manifest satisfaction and admiration into the details of his hero's tyranny. In his Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell—in half a dozen pages of savage and almost diabolical sarcasm directed against
Mount Holly, N. J. (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
de the instrumentality of exerting a mighty influence upon slavery in the Society of Friends. A small storekeeper at Mount Holly, Mount Holly is a village lying in the western part of the long, narrow township of Northampton, on Rancocas CreekMount Holly is a village lying in the western part of the long, narrow township of Northampton, on Rancocas Creek, a tributary of the Delaware. In John Woolman's day it was almost entirely a settlement of Friends. A very few of the old houses with their quaint stoops or porches are left. That occupied by John Woolman was a small, plain, two-story structure, When the excellent Joseph Sturge was in this country, some thirty years ago, on his errand of humanity, he visited Mount Holly, and the house of Woolman, then standing. He describes it as a very humble abode. But one person was then living in in the great work to which his life has been so faithfully and nobly devoted. Looking back to the humble workshop at Mount Holly from the stand-point of the Proclamation of President Lincoln, how has the seed sown in weakness been raised up in pow
Amesbury (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
yd Garrison, President of the Society. Amesbury, 24th 11th mo., 1863. my dear friend,—I hach such a censure of such a man will inflict. Amesbury, 3d month, 8, 1873. The Anti-slavery Con Letter to the Newport Convention. Amesbury, Mass., 12th, 8th Month, 1869. I have receiveition of the Indians in the United States. Amesbury, 4th mo., 1883. I regret that I cannot be ament who favor international arbitration. Amesbury, 11th Mo., 9, 1887. it is a very serious de, shall be torn up and destroyed forever. Amesbury, 1st 6th mo., 1862. The Society of Friene writer's fears and solicitude. I. Amesbury, 2d mo., 1870. To the editor of the Review. ucing them to the Journal of John Woolman. Amesbury, 20th 1st mo., 1871. The old way. To the editor of Friends' Review. Amesbury, 1st mo., 17, 1872. I should think it must be ratheto President Thomas chase, L. L.D. Amesbury, Mass., 9th mo., 1884. the Semi-Centennial of[4 more...]
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ll to mind all the circumstances of my journey to Philadelphia, in company with thyself and the excellent Dr. Thurston of Maine, even then, as we thought, an old man, but still living, and true as ever to the good cause. I recall the early gray morr as I have seen, mentioned but three or four names in this connection. Allusions have been made to Senator Fessenden of Maine, ex-Minister Motley, General Dix, ex-Secretary Stanton, and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Without disparaging in an for New York. At that city we were joined by other delegates, among them David Thurston, a Congregational minister from Maine. On our way to Philadelphia, we took, as a matter of necessary economy, a second-class conveyance, and found ourselves, is emotions as he repeated the solemn pledges of the concluding paragraphs. After a season of silence, David Thurston of Maine rose as his name was called by one of the secretaries, and affixed his name to the document. One after another passed up
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