A history of the American nation . y, persecution and violenceare the poorest of arguments andlikely to have quite an oppositeeffect from that intended. In 1833Prudence Crandall opened herschool in Canterbury, Conn., tonegro girls. She was cast into jail,-and her school building 1837 Elijah P. Lovejoy was shotin Alton, 111. His offence was the publication of an anti-slaverynewspaper. Garrison was mobbed, and led with a rope throughthe streets of Boston. Garrisons attacks were sharp, ceaseless, unrelenting. TheLiberator poured out denunciation on the whole system of slavery, using
A history of the American nation . y, persecution and violenceare the poorest of arguments andlikely to have quite an oppositeeffect from that intended. In 1833Prudence Crandall opened herschool in Canterbury, Conn., tonegro girls. She was cast into jail,-and her school building 1837 Elijah P. Lovejoy was shotin Alton, 111. His offence was the publication of an anti-slaverynewspaper. Garrison was mobbed, and led with a rope throughthe streets of Boston. Garrisons attacks were sharp, ceaseless, unrelenting. TheLiberator poured out denunciation on the whole system of slavery, using the most scathing terms of reproach. I am aware, said Garrison, that many object to the severity of my language; but is there notcause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncom-promising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, orspeak, or write with moderation. He made no excuse for theslave-holder on the ground that the system had long existed,that it was an inheritance from the past. He had no patience. Garrisonsprinciples. ^ It should be noticed that abolitionism was essentially different fromother earlier movements against slavery, inasmuch as its main tenet wasthe sinfulness of slavery, which tainted the slaveholder and the wholenation. It would have nothing to do with gradual emancipation; its pur-pose was to arouse the conscience of the nation to immediate repentance. SLAVERY AND THE TEXAS QUESTION 317 with those advocating gradual abolition; Gradualism in theory,he asserted, is perpetuity in practice . We may not all agreethat Garrison was wise and right in the manner of his opposition;but there are few more intensely interesting or more profoundlyimpressive pictures than that of the young man, almost alone,friendless and poor, taking up this great crusade, printing hispaper in a garret in Boston, and filling its pages with words offire. He began a crusade against one of the oldest institutionsin the world, a system that was old when the pyram
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