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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 30: Anti-slavery agitation. (search)
er 30: Anti-slavery agitation. Mr. Randolph thought and expressed the opinion to Mr. Buchanan, that the Anti-slavery agitation in the North was the only thing that had prevented the passage of a law in the Southern States for gradual emancipation. When the agitation was fairly inaugurated the legitimate uses of the Post-office Department were perverted from their end by packing the mails full of incendiary documents urging our slaves to servile insurrections. General Jackson, on December 2, 1835, recommended that a penalty should be attached to the dissemination of these documents. A bill to restrict the circulation of incendiary matter was introduced and defeated, June 8th, by 19 to 25 votes. Not a single New England senator voted for General Jackson's measure. From the State legislatures, the press, the county meetings, the pulpit, the different societies, no matter what their object, the lecturers, and above all the abolitionists, came this downpour of petitions; yard
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 11 (search)
ng for penal enactments and popular proofs of Northern fidelity to Constitutional obligations. The former were not forthcoming; in fact, the most adroit and skillful draftsman would have found it difficult to frame any such law as was required — any one that would have subserved the end in view — that would not have directly and glaringly contravened the constitution or bill of rights of even the most conservative State. Yet President Jackson did not hesitate, in his Annual Message of December 2, 1835, to say: I must also invite your attention to the painful excitement produced in the South by attempts to circulate, through the mails, inflammatory appeals addressed to the passions of the slaves, in prints, and in various sorts of publications, calculated to stimulate them to insurrection, and to produce all the horrors of a servile war. There is, doubtless, no respectable portion of our fellow-countrymen who can be so far misled as to feel any other sentiment than that of indi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
d M. Johnson, of Kentucky, for Vice-President.] Anti-slavery documents taken from the mail and burned at Charleston, S. C.......August, 1835 Name Loco-focos first applied to the Democratic party......1835 Gen. William H. Harrison, of Ohio, nominated for President, with Francis Granger, of New York, for Vice-President, by a State Whig Convention at Harrisburg, Pa.......1835 Samuel Colt patents a revolving pistol ......1835 Twenty-fourth Congress, first session, convenes......Dec. 2, 1835 Speaker of the House, James K. Polk, of Tennessee. The President, in his message, suggests laws to prohibit the circulation of antislavery documents through the mails. Great fire in New York City......Dec. 16-17, 1835 General Thompson, Lieut. C. Smith, and others massacred by the Seminole Indians at Fort King, 60 miles southwest of St. Augustine, Fla.......Dec. 28, 1835 [Osceola, whom General Thompson had shortly before put in irons for a day, led this war-party.] Maj.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
cert at Lord Landsdowne's, and visits to Joanna Baillie and Mrs. Somerville. Life of George Ticknor, Vol. I. pp. 408, 412, 413. They were to start the day after the date of the last letter (July 24) for Ireland. Perhaps you have heard these particulars from other quarters. The Law School is flourishing beyond a parallel, containing now upwards of fifty students. Believe me, with great esteem, Most truly yours, Chas. Sumner. To Dr. Francis Lieber, Columbia, S. C. Boston, Dec. 2, 1835. my dear friend,—Will you pardon my remissness, my long undutiful silence? Besides the usual stock of things to do, I have been compelled to prepare anew a whole number of the Jurist, which was burnt up,— sheets, proofs, copy, and nearly all, on the morning when it was due. I begin, however, to descry land. Italiam! Italiam! My chief anxiety now is to know that, in your journey South nearer to the sun, you have not entirely turned your back upon me. To-day I finished your Remin
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Mr. Buchanan's administration. (search)
ent to the advancement of their cause. Through its agency, at an early period, they scattered throughout the slaveholding States pamphlets, newspapers, and pictorial representations of an incendiary character, calculated to arouse the savage passions of the slaves to servile insurrection. So alarming had these efforts become to the domestic peace of the South, that General Jackson recommended they should be prohibited by law, under severe penalties. He said, in his annual message of 2d December, 1835: I must also invite your attention to the painful excitement produced in the South by attempts to circulate, through the mails, inflammatory appeals addressed to the passions of the slaves, in prints, and in various sorts of publications, calculated to stimulate them to insurrection and to produce all the horrors of a servile war. 2 Statesman's Manual, 1018. And he also commended to the special attention of Congress the propriety of passing such a law as will prohibit, under severe
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
eth m. Solomon Prentiss, 7 Nov. 1813. Elizabeth Whittemore was adm. to the ch. 16 Dec. 1821. 5. William S. and w. Eleanor o. c. 26 June, 1808, when she was baptized; had Eleanor Malvina, bap. 26 June, 1808, d. 23 Feb. 1814, a. 7; James, bap. 4 June, 1809; William Foreman, bap. 22 Sept. 1811; Horace, bap. 28 May, 1815; Eleanor Malvina, bap. 5 Oct. 1817. See Hist. Medf. 508, and Bond, 726. 6. Alfred, of Lincoln, m. Roxa Peirce of W. Camb. 30 Sept. 1821. Roxanna, dau. of Alfred, d. 2 Dec. 1835, a. 20 mos. 7. Mary S. W., of W. Camb., m. Libbeus Leach of Braintree, 20 Oct. 1822. Brown, Daniel and——000, w. of Daniel, adm. to the ch. 22 Feb. 1756. Had Mary, adm. Pct. ch. 11 Oct. 1767—perhaps Mary, who m. John Brooks 3d, of Lancaster, 3 Dec. 1767; a son, d. 22 Jan. 1752, a. 4 yrs.; Lucy, b. 5, bap. 11 Feb. 1753; Elizabeth, b. 25 Feb. bap. 2 Mar. 1755—perhaps Elizabeth, who m. Thomas Cutter, 15 Oct. 1780, Cutter (par. 47); Anna, b. 18, bap. 23 Oct. 1757; a dau. Abi- gail, p