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June 27th (search for this): chapter 15
bloodshed. The first homicide of this Lib. 25.86, 87, 105, 131. character occurred before Governor Reeder's dismissal, and nearly led to a pitched battle. Arms were sent to the Lib. 25.91; Sanborn's John Brown, pp. 212-215. Territory by the friends of the Emigrant Aid Association to prevent the extermination of the Northern settlers. Gerrit Smith and his little knot of Simon Pure Liberty Party men, now styling themselves Radical Political Abolitionists and met in convention at Syracuse June 27, 28, took up a collection in response to an appeal from a Mr. John Brown, who had five sons in Kansas, and who Lib. 25.107. was desirous to join them. They had written for arms and means of defence, and declared in their letters that fighting suasion was the most important institution in the new Territory. See John Brown's own account of the Convention in Sanborn's Life of him, pp. 193, 194. Among the donors was Capt. Charles Stuart—a clear case of British Gold. In November, anoth
June 22nd (search for this): chapter 15
son in Boston by men of property and standing. By midsummer of 1855, out of eleven United States Lib. 25.106. Senators elected by the legislatures of eight Northern States since the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, not one was tolerant of that measure. New Hampshire itself, the stronghold of the Pierce Administration, having been carried by the Know-Nothings, returned John P. Lib. 25.43, 51, 99. Hale to the Senate. And, fresh from this act of defiance, its Legislature opened, on June 22, the Hall of the House Lib. 25.102. of Representatives to an abolition convention in session at the capital, and listened without disfavor to disunion addresses from Garrison and Phillips. The year closed with an ominous struggle in the Federal House of Lib. 25.203. Representatives over the speakership; the Free-State candidate being Nathaniel P. Banks of Massachusetts, who had lately, in a speech made in Maine, expressed his willingness to let the Union slide in the event of the Lib.
1855 AD (search for this): chapter 15
Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. Massachusetts, at the instigation of the abolitionists, makes its Personal Liberty Law morrison in Boston by men of property and standing. By midsummer of 1855, out of eleven United States Lib. 25.106. Senators elected by the lon was the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Oct. 21, 1855. Boston mob in the very hall from which the Female Anti-Slavery Soci Mr. Garrison spoke with good cheer of the contrast between 1835 and 1855, and found all the signs of the times encouraging, though admitting ntellect, Are things so changed, after all? Is the Massachusetts of 1855 so transformed from the Massachusetts of 1835? Is State Street so u. of my dear honored father, W. H. Ashurst. He died at my Oct. 13, 1855. brother's house about eight weeks since, but illness and much occuunicate to you the death of Capt. Weston at Warren Weston. Nov. 2, 1855. Weymouth. He finished his voyage of life last evening, and has ent
1856 AD (search for this): chapter 15
Tourgueneff rightly held that emancipation in Russia would come about not from below but from above—that is, from the Czar; and happily he lived to see the great consummation. to Mrs. M. W. Chapman. Paris, September 29, 1855. Liberty Bell for 1856, p. 100; Lib. 26.60. Madame: Seeing you on the point of departing for America, I cannot forbear entreating you to be the bearer of my tribute of respect and admiration to one of your compatriots. Need I add that I have in view our holy cause ostrous position. For arbitrary judicial tyranny, the case stands alone in the history of the anti-slavery struggle. See, for details, Lib. 25: 119, 131, 167, 178, 179, 182, 191, 194, and the volume, The case of Passmore Williamson, Philadelphia, 1856. Judge Kane took the extraordinary ground that the law of nations (!) guaranteed the right of transit for slave property like any other (Lib. 25: 167). In Kansas, the liberty of white men is struck down, and held at the point of the bayonet, and h
September 15th, 1855 AD (search for this): chapter 15
fund which had been accumulated to this end principally, Ante, p. 265. was augmented sufficiently to purchase the house of Mr. Mss. Oct. 1, 1855, F. Jackson to W. L. G., Sept. 12, Hovey to Jackson. Jackson, at its original cost. Mr. Hovey, already a liberal contributor to the fund, notified the Garrisons that, in addition, he proposed to pay them annually a sum equal to the interest on a contemplated legacy. This aid was gratefully accepted by Mr. Garrison, on condition that it Ms. Sept. 15, 1855, W. L. G. to Hovey. should be freely revoked at any time, for any reason, and saving his own independence of thought and action. It was in Dix Place, and presumably on Sept. 21, 1855, that the gathering occurred which was thus described in a private letter by Miss Susan B. Anthony ( Hist. Woman Suffrage, 1: 256). A Woman's Rights Convention had just been held in Boston: In the evening, Ellen Blackwell and I attended a reception at Mr. Garrison's, where we met several of the literati,
November 3rd, 1855 AD (search for this): chapter 15
hough but a short distance apart. W. L. Garrison to Mrs. Eliza F. Eddy. Daughter of Francis Jackson; Mrs. Meriam by a previous marriage. [Boston], November 3, [1855]. Ms. I beg you to convey to your dear, noble father all the warm Saturday morning. sensibilities and grateful emotions of my soul for his prompt and trhe world beyond us, occupied my mind during the silent watches of the night, and rendered sleep impossible. Francis Jackson to W. L. Garrison. [Boston], Nov. 3d, 1855. Ms. in pencil. Afternoon. Dear Garrison: Among the choicest cordials the nurse brings to my parched lips are your very kind letters, which I should like t is not for me to say. I want to write more, but cannot; I cannot see you now, but I send you my love. W. L. Garrison to Francis Jackson. 14 Dix place, Nov. 3, 1855. Ms., dictated. Saturday evening. Happy am I, if, in any manner, I have been of any service to you during our long and endearing acquaintance. But you ha
May 9th (search for this): chapter 15
-slavery course of lectures conducted by Dr. S. G. Howe and others, had made a stolid defence of slavery. Lib. 25.35, 36. The experiment was a success, the audience being large. One feature of the review was the exhibition Cf. ante, p. 162. to the audience of eleven yards of Southern and slaveholding atrocities clipped from the columns of the Lib- erator. As landmarks, we will cite resolutions which he introduced at the annual New York meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in May: May 9. Resolved, That Liberty and Slavery are in their nature Lib. 25.70, 78. antagonisms, which no power in the universe can reconcile; and that any effort to make peace, or to effect a compromise, between them is an insult to God, a crime against nature, and an outrage upon man. Resolved, That a Church or Government which accords the same rights and privileges to Slavery as to Liberty, is a house divided against itself, which cannot stand—is an attempt to pay equal honor to Belial and
1858 AD (search for this): chapter 15
What rapid strides, startling achievements, and boundless aims, on the part of the Slave Power! In what a close death-grapple are Liberty and Slavery found! Though absent in body, we know you have been with us unceasingly in spirit since you left us; that nothing which has occurred, affecting either the integrity or success of our glorious cause, has escaped your observation; that you have not only improved, but created, opportunities to aid us, on British and Lib. 28.4; Liberty Bell for 1858, p. 243. on French soil, by speech, testimony, personal influence, the press, the preparation of circulars and tracts, a generous pecuniary cooperation, multitudinous letters, and well-directed blows, struck at the right time and with irresistible force. For all these efforts and sacrifices we are immensely indebted to you, to say nothing of antecedent years of unequalled industry and labor at home, under the most trying circumstances, and in the midst of all-abounding obloquy, proscription,
December 27th, 1855 AD (search for this): chapter 15
he latter and more recent were John Bishop Lib. 25.106. Estlin of Bristol, England, one of the half-dozen indispensable coadjutors of the American Anti-Slavery Society Ante, pp. 169, 170. across the water; See the Rev. S. May, Jr.'s memorial tribute to Mr. Estlin's character and services in Lib. 25: 171, 179, 182, 186, 190, 195, 199, 202. and William H. Ashurst, belonging to the same group. Mrs. Matilda Ashurst Biggs to W. L. Garrison. Barden Park, near Tunbridge, Kent,Ms. December 27, 1855. A painful duty devolves upon me to inform you of the death Lib. 26.10. of my dear honored father, W. H. Ashurst. He died at my Oct. 13, 1855. brother's house about eight weeks since, but illness and much occupation have prevented my writing to you earlier. His death was very sudden and unexpected, although his strength had been failing since his return from America, and the loss of my dear mother was a shock from which he never entirely rallied. . . . And now, dear sir, I s
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