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Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ion Society in Kentucky; but these schemes failed. A committee of the Maryland Legislature reported favorably, but in Georgia and Missouri the proposal met with decided disapproval. A long address by Clay before the Kentucky society was elaboratesubject of slavery. The phase of the Indian question at that time before the public was the conscienceless attempt of Georgia to dispossess the Cherokees of the lands which they held by solemn treaty with the United States, and to expel them fromtive population. President Jackson betrayed his sympathy with this scheme of spoliation, and was willing to see the State of Georgia set at naught the treaty obligations of the National Government; and in this, as in all previous and subsequent inva The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. O
Clarkson, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ance of the paper as conducted by them. In a department of the Genius which he styled the Black List, and which bore at its head the figure of a chained and kneeling negro, This figure, originally designed for the seal of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in October, 1787, had a powerful influence in kindling anti-slavery sentiment in Great Britain, and was, with its direct and pathetic appeal, no less an inspiration and incentive to the American abolitionists. (See Clarkson's History of the slave trade, Chapter XX:) with the motto, Am I not a Man and a Brother? Mr. Garrison recorded each week some of the terrible incidents of slavery,—instances of cruelty and torture, cases of kidnapping, advertisements of slave auctions, and descriptions of the horrors of the foreign and domestic slave trade. By common consent of the principal maritime nations, the foreign slave trade was now adjudged felony, and their navies united in efforts for its suppression. When the
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
m the benevolent and philanthropic portions of the community, and Mr. Garrison joined in them, insisting that the nation should keep its G. U. E., Dec. 25, 1829, p. 125. plighted faith. Expediency and policy, he declared, are convertible terms, full of dishonesty and oppression. Justice is eternal, and its demands cannot safely be evaded. Nevertheless, although he was invoking the aid of women in the temperance and anti-slavery movements, he was shocked when seven hundred women of Pittsburgh, Pa., petitioned Congress in behalf of Indian rights. He declared it out of place, and said, This Ibid., Feb. 12, 1830, p. 182. is, in our opinion, an uncalled — for interference, though made with holiest intentions. We should be sorry to have this practice become general. There would then be no question agitated in Congress without eliciting the informal and contrarient opinions of the softer sex. Forty years later, his friend Mrs. Abby Kelley Foster, at a Woman Suffrage meeting i
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
in chains large numbers of the unfortunate blacks. The ship Francis, Brown, which sailed hence a few weeks since, transported seventy-five. This vessel hails from my native place (Newburyport, Mass.), and belongs to Francis Todd.—So much for New England principle!— Next week I shall allude more particularly to this damning affair. Following this was an account of another ship, not Todd's, which had just sailed for New Orleans with 115 slaves. The next week, true to his promise, he return is a rare instance of domestic piracy, or because the case was attended with extraordinary circumstances; for the horrible traffic is briskly carried on, and the transportation was effected in the ordinary manner. I merely wish to illustrate New England humanity and morality. I am resolved to cover with thick infamy all who were concerned in this nefarious business. I have stated that the ship Francis hails from my native place, Newburyport, (Massachusetts,) is commanded by a Yankee capta
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be no question agitated in Congress without eliciting the informal and contrarient opinions of the softer sex. Forty years later, his friend Mrs. Abby Kelley Foster, at a Woman Suffrage meeting in Boston, laughingly confronted him with these longforgotten words of his; to which he rejoined, Whereas I was blind, now I see. He had not yet outgrown sectarian narrowness, and he still denounced Paine and Jefferson for their infidelity, and lamented because a fete was given to Lafayette in France on the Sabbath. He could not even express his enthusiastic admiration of Mrs. Lydia Maria Child's genius without saying that he did not like her G. U. E., Oct. 30, 1829, p. 60. religious notions. And yet he protested against the current religion in these terms: With reverence, and in the name of God, we ask, what sort Ibid., Oct. 23, 1829, p. 50. of religion is now extant among us? Certainly not such as cheered the prophets through the gloom of the old dispensation, and constrai
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
of living freight were reported in the newspapers as unblushingly as if they had been cattle, or bales of cotton, or other merchandise. In a single week—that ending Oct. 16, 1831—371 slaves were landed in New Orleans, chiefly from Alexandria, Norfolk, and Charleston (Niles' Register, Nov. 26, 1831). Fully fifty thousand slaves a year, it was estimated, Lib. 4.91. were sold and transported from one State to another, in this infernal traffic, whose victims, torn from their kindred and fthe blood of their masters in their veins), went forth with hearts full of despair to what they believed to be a certain, slow and torturous death. Not infrequently they chose instant death by suicide in preference. Alexandria, Baltimore, and Norfolk were the ports from which the Maryland and Virginia slaves were chiefly shipped; and as Lundy's soul had been stirred within him by the sight of the daily processions of manacled slaves before his door at Wheeling, so now was Garrison's indignat
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 6
ve labor valueless. In the second number of this volume of the Genius, Lundy sounded a vigorous alarm against the plot just being developed to wrest Texas from Mexico, for the G. U. E., Sept. 16, 1829, pp. 13, 14. avowed purpose of adding five or six more slaveholding States to this Union; and called upon the people of the Ud and fifty settlers with their families, and he returned to the United States to secure these; but the disturbances arising from the lawless Southern invasion of Mexico put an end to his scheme. His journeys had no other result than to make him the best informed man in the country in regard to the Mexican province, and of great lied vigorously to his critics. He was strengthened by Elizabeth Heyrick's admirable letters on Colonial Slavery, and cheered by the act of President Guerrero of Mexico in proclaiming immediate emancipation to the ten thousand slaves in that country. Of those critics who declared that the slaves, if freed and turned loose, would
Liberia (Liberia) (search for this): chapter 6
ciety. No man contemplates with more intense interest and unmingled satisfaction the colony at Liberia than the subscriber. I have elsewhere termed it the lungs and heart of Africa, full of generoued slaves, I view the republic of Hayti with a favourable eye. In many points it is superior to Liberia. Its climate is more salubrious, its government is stable, its locality is near, and transportileges. Our free coloured people, moreover, generally cherish less repugnance to Hayti than to Liberia. But while I would encourage every feasible plan for the reduction of this part of our populon he could concerning the Haytian government and people. He evidently took little interest in Liberia, and, as has been already mentioned, had early expressed his distrust of Ante, p. 91. the Cong to the fact that the Colonization Society had transported only thirteen hundred emigrants to Liberia in thirteen years, while the slave population had increased half a million during the same peri
Baltimore Branch (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
its sessions by the Mayor and Aldermen. The number of delegates present was small, and their proceedings were of little value, consisting largely of a discussion of various colonization schemes as a means of abolishing slavery. Lundy was a delegate, Garrison remaining in Baltimore. Prior to the assembling of the Convention, the Genius had announced the appointment of delegates to it by various anti-slavery organizations in Baltimore,—a National Anti-Slavery Tract Society, the First Baltimore Branch of the Anti-Slavery Society of Maryland, and a Convention of the Anti-Slavery Societies of Maryland,—but these seem to have possessed no vitality, and to have had little more than a local habitation and a name. The Convention adopted an Address to the Public, In this Address the Convention recapitulated its objects and methods, which were substantially those of all the State Societies of the close of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The anti-slavery sentime
Quaker (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
for forcing it upon the attention of the country at large. Nor did he follow it up by dedicating his life to the cause. Lundy and his partner boarded with two Quaker ladies, Beulah Harris and sister, who lived at 135 Market Street, and their circle of acquaintances was limited to a few Quaker friends and some of the more intelQuaker friends and some of the more intelligent colored people of the city. Among the former, John Needles, who subsequently attained a ripe age and lived to see slavery abolished, was one of the truest and most devoted; while among the latter were William Watkins (probably the Colored Baltimorean subsequently referred to), Jacob Greener, and his sons Richard W. and Json, Prof. Richard T. Greener, was the first colored graduate of Harvard University (Class of 1870). Associated with them in the conduct of the Genius was a young Quaker woman, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, a resident of Philadelphia, who possessed considerable literary taste and skill and decided poetic talent. Early attracted by
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