Book/Printed Material History of American abolitionism : its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican War, Wilmot Proviso, Negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, Compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the southern confederacy African American Pamphlet Collection copy

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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM, FROM 1787 TO 1861. A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORICAL FACTS, EMBRACING LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS AND AGITATION WITHOUT. (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORK HERALD.) By F. G. de FONTAINE. NEW YORK:…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     HISTORY OF AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM; Its Four Great Epochs, EMBRACING NARRATIVES OF THE ORDINANCE OF 1787, COMPROMISE OF 1820, ANNEXATION OF TEXAS, MEXICAN WAR, WILMOT PROVISO, NEGRO INSURRECTIONS, ABOLITION RIOTS, SLAVE RESCUES, COMPROMISE…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, By F. G. de Fontaine, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     3 INTRODUCTION. The following pages originally appeared in the New York Herald, of February 2d, 1861. By request, they have been reproduced in their present shape, with the view of preserving, in…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     4 the people and the elements of true government, and struggles for the maintenance of that sacred pledge by which the United States have heretofore been bound in a common brotherhood. Like…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     5 of slaves from State to State, and the refusal to admit any new State comprising within its limits the institution of domestic slavery—all these being but so many means conducive to…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     6 “In language no element ever flung out more defiance of authority, contempt of religion, or authority to man. As to agency, no element on earth has broken up more friendships and…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     7 passage of the Missouri Compromise, 964,667 square miles of this was converted into free territory. Again, by the treaty with Spain, of February, 1819, the United States gained the territory from…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     8 removing with his slaves into the territory acquired from Mexico—a territory as large as the old thirteen States originally composing the Union. It appears to have been forgotten that whether slavery…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     9 THE FIRST EPOCH. From 1787 to 1820. CHAPTER II. The Ordinance of 1787—The Slave Population of 1790—Abolitionism at that time—The Importation of Slaves the Work of Northerners—Statistics of the Port of…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     10 This sentiment was generally acquiesced in, and satisfaction and tranquility ensued, the abolition societies thereafter limiting their exertions, in respect to the black population, to offices of humanity within the scope…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     11 It is related, that during the debate on the Missouri question, a Senator from South Carolina introduced in the Senate of the United States a document from the Custom House of…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     12 SECOND EPOCH. CHAPTER III. History of the Missouri Compromise, 1820—Benjamin Lundy and the “ Genius of Universal Emancipation ”—Insurrection at Charleston, S. C.—The result of agitation in Congress—British Influence and Interference—Abolition…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     13 were, and not a basis of things that were to be; that these securities of slavery, as it existed, would be forfeited by an extension of the system; that the honor…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     14 for its agitation among the non-slaveholding States. Fanatics sprang up like mushrooms, and, “in the name of God,” proclaimed the enormity of slavery and eternal damnation to all who indulged in…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     15 Startled by this terrible intelligence, the military were immediately ordered out and preparations made to suppress the first signs of an outbreak. Finding the city encompassed with patrols and a strict…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     16 Religious fanaticism also had its share in the conspiracy at Charleston, as well as politics. The secession of a large body of blacks from the white Methodist church formed a hot-bed,…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     17 fomented by abolition missionaries, broke out in the island of Jamaica, which was only terminated by a resort to the musket and gibbet—the usual fruit of these incendiary doctrines, wherever they…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     18 say that from the time this plan of operation was digested in England, thirty years ago, there is scarcely a movement that has taken place on the chess-board of American abolitionism,…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     19 and, in short, the spirit of reform became epidemic, and the period one of unprecedented moral and political inquiry. It was a period, too, when in many of the States of…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     20 persons from the negro race, and present a very considerable check to the progress of the black population, giving them at the same time new interests and feelings. The children thus…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     21 Men of wisdom, intelligence and character have been consulted, and with one voice have recommended its establishment. “Believing, as we do, that the theatre is an institution which all experience proves…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     22 wrote a few paragraphs that bear out the idea we have advanced—that there was then more real philanthropy in the South than at the North. He says:— “I issued proposals for…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     23 to the slaves, that “Jesus came not to bring peace, but a sword!” Such a tree produced fitting fruits. About midnight on the Sabbath of the 21st of August, 1831, Turner,…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     24 Early the next morning they commenced their work again. But the first plantation they attacked—that of Dr. Blount—they were driven from by the slaves, who rallied around their master, and fearlessly…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     25 CHAPTER V. The New England Anti-Slavery Society, 1832—More Newspapers and Tracts—New York City Anti-Slavery Society and the Incidents of Its Organization—The American Anti-Slavery Society and its Creed—The Extent and System of…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     26 the day the public feeling was excited by the posting through the city of a large placard, of which the following is a copy:— “NOTICE.—TO ALL PERSONS FROM THE SOUTH: All…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     27 was Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, then United States Senator from New Jersey, afterwards a candidate for Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with Henry Clay, and he directly charged the…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     28 idea. The reaction shortly took place. Laws were passed forbidding the reception or circulation of these incendiary articles in the Southern States. Mobs broke into the post-offices and burned all abolition…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     29 with an excited multitude, armed with paving stones, which they smote together, crying “All together.” A fence was torn down and converted into clubs, and a barricade of carts was built…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     30 AN ERA OF EXCITEMENT. The year 1835 was one of the most exciting eras of agitation in the early history of anti-slavery. The events of the preceding few months had aroused…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     31 Laws of the most stringent character were passed by nearly all the Southern States to prevent the further dissemination among the Southern people of abolition doctrines, and an appeal was made…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     32 remark, “Never was man so rejoiced to get into jail before.” The rabble, which by the by, was of an unexceptionable character, soon after dispersed, their object having been effected, and…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     33 who insisted that they would not be satisfied with anything less than its destruction. The party in the building determined it should not be given up, and during the angry altercation…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     34 THIRD EPOCH. CHAPTER VI. The Era of “Gags” and Congressional Petitions—John Quincy Adams; his Petition for Disunion—Legislation from 1835 to 1845—Annexation of Texas—The Liberty Party of 1840, Free Soil Party of…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     35 In both branches of Congress, also, the question of abolition for the first time occupied a large share of the deliberations, and was discussed under every possible aspect. From 1831, when…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     36 long and protracted efforts by John Quincy Adams, who was then champion of the abolitionists on the floor of the House, this restriction upon the right of petition was removed in…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     37 on the slave products of the United States, and at the same time set up a barrier to the further extension of Southern civilization in that direction. There was but one…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     38 Birney and Thomas Morris, received 62,300 votes. These, however, were but a small part of the professed abolitionists of the United States, the great majority voting for the nominees of the…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861
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    American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861     39 anti-slavery sentiment already pervading the country. It was the springing up of the green blade, and the forming of the ear from the many years sowing of the abolitionists. The nomination…
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory) - Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne
    • Date: 1861