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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The conflict with slavery (search)
Why are we thus willing to believe a lie! New England not responsible! Bound by the United Statelinas, or the consecrated soil of Virginia, New England would be called upon to arrest the progressutiful system of free labor as exhibited in New England, where every young laborer, with health andfind my opinions quoted as the sentiment of New England, and then denounced as dangerous, false andimmediate duty, a majority of the people of New England are wholly guiltless. Of course, all are nntic to the free valleys of the West. In New England the labor of a farmer or mechanic is worth take a part in its unutterable horrors. New England would obey that call, for she will abide unhas no advocates among the abolitionists of New England. We aim to overthrow slavery by the mora., 1834. Samuel E. Sewall, Esq., Secretary New England A. S. Society: dear friend,—I regret thand politicians, that we, the free people of New England, have no right to discuss the subject of sl[9 more...]
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Democracy and slavery. (search)
ed the length and breadth of that doctrine which they were the first to adopt, and of which they have claimed all along to be the peculiar and chosen advocates. The Northern States were slow to adopt the Democratic creed. The oligarchy of New England, and the rich proprietors and landholders of the Middle States, turned with alarm and horror from the levelling doctrines urged upon them by the liberty and equality propagandists of the South. The doctrines of Virginia were quite as unpalatathose of Massachusetts now are to the Old Dominion. Democracy interfered with old usages and time-honored institutions, and threatened to plough up the very foundations of the social fabric. It was zealously opposed by the representatives of New England in Congress and in the home legislatures; and in many pulpits hands were lifted to God in humble entreaty that the curse and bane of democracy, an offshoot of the rabid Jacobinism of revolutionary France, might not be permitted to take root an
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
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...]
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Criticism (search)
contrast with the deep damnation of their taking off! The true history of the Puritans of New England is yet to be written. Somewhere midway between the caricatures of the Church party and the sThey had noble qualities: the firmness and energy which they displayed in the colonization of New England must always command admiration. We would not rob them, were it in our power to do so, of oneacter and purse, contrived to make gain of godliness under the church and state government of New England, put on the austere exterior of sanctity, quoted Scripture, anathematized heretics, whipped Qred at great length to show that the charge of intolerance, as urged against the colonists of New England, is unfounded in fact. The banishment of the Catholics was very sagaciously passed over in she fruits of their toils and sacrifices. But, in expressing our gratitude to the founders of New England, we should not forget what is due to truth and justice; nor, for the sake of vindicating them