History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . n-ized all over the North, the UndergroundRailroad was hard worked in helpingfugitives to Canada, and fiery prophetsharangued wherever they coyld get a hear-ing, demanding immediate abolition inthe name of God. The Abolitionists proposed none butmoral arms in fighting slavery—papers,pamphlets, public addresses, personal ap-peals. They deprecated rebellion byslaves, and urged congressional actionagainst slavery only in the District of Co-lumbia, in the territories, and at sea, wherethe absolute jurisdiction
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . n-ized all over the North, the UndergroundRailroad was hard worked in helpingfugitives to Canada, and fiery prophetsharangued wherever they coyld get a hear-ing, demanding immediate abolition inthe name of God. The Abolitionists proposed none butmoral arms in fighting slavery—papers,pamphlets, public addresses, personal ap-peals. They deprecated rebellion byslaves, and urged congressional actionagainst slavery only in the District of Co-lumbia, in the territories, and at sea, wherethe absolute jurisdiction of the generalGovernment was admitted by nearly , southern hostility to themwas indescribably ferocious and uncompro-mising. They were charged with instigat-ing all the slave insurrections and insub-ordination that occurred, and with having 1833] IMMEDIATE ABOLITION 167 made necessary the new, more diabolicaldiscipline over blacks, both bond and papers and Legislatures inces-santly commanded that Abolitionists bedelivered up to southern justice, their. try<c^ysfei/T-r-L-d--v-Ky^ societies and their publications suppressedby law, and abolitionist agitation madepenal. There were northerners quite readyto grant these demands. Rage againstabolitionism, much of it, if possible, even i68 SLAVERY CONTROVERSY [1834 more unreasoning, prevailed at the says that he found here con-tempt more bitter, detraction more relent-less, prejudice more stubborn, and apathymore frozen than among slav^e-owners them-selves. The Church, politics, business—-all interests save righteousness—seemed tobow to the false god. Of all utterancesagainst abolitionism, those of clergymenand religious journals were- the call slavery sin was the unpardonablesin. In 1834, on July 4th, a mob broke upa meeting of the American Anti-SlaverySociety in New York. A few days after,Lewis Tappans house was sacked in thesame manner, as well as several churches,s
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