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  • They also fought for the abolition of slavery and for a more humane treatment of criminals.†   (source)
  • There were others on this list whom Farmer often mentioned elsewhere: the former American slave and great abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who eagerly served as American ambassador to Haiti, in effect representing the Monroe Doctrine there.†   (source)
  • We advocated the redivision of land on an equitable basis; the abolition of color bars prohibiting Africans from doing skilled work; and the need for free and compulsory education.†   (source)
  • That must be the starting point of any abolitionist movement.†   (source)
  • In 1773, Rush had published a pamphlet attacking slavery, and in 1774, the year the First Congress convened, he had helped organize the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.†   (source)
  • I know that their abolition of all scientific research does not mean a damn to you or me, and that you would want me to continue.†   (source)
  • Whigs and abolitionists in the North claimed the war was contrived by Southerners to acquire another slave state.†   (source)
  • If anything has come to us that will finally draw the questions of slavery and abolition into public debate, it is this event.†   (source)
  • "I will never stand by and see my native soil polluted by a horde of Abolition incendiaries" or for that matter by the "lowest and most contemptible race upon the face of God's earth,"†   (source)
  • The Virginia Assembly met in December, z83 The subject of slavery was introduced because some of the counties, alarmed by the Nat Turner insurrection, had petitioned for the gradual emancipation of the slaves or for abolition of slavery.†   (source)
  • A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less able to pervade the whole Union, just like a malady is more likely to taint a specific county or district than an entire State.†   (source)
  • The abolition movement, in Booth's mind, is the real cause of the Civil War, a serpent that must be crushed.†   (source)
  • Suppose I kept a fine stallion in one of my fields, and suddenly one of your Northern abolitionists came up and insisted I should free it.†   (source)
  • The abolition of armed forces had at once almost doubled the world's effective wealth, and increased production had done the rest.†   (source)
  • After the confrontation, appalled at what had to be some military alliance between abolitionist Russia (Nicholas having freed the serfs in 1861) and a Union that paid lip service to abolition while it kept its own industrial laborers in a kind of wage-slavery, Peter Pinguid stayed in his cabin for weeks, brooding.†   (source)
  • In New England, Garrison was publicly proclaiming, "I am an Abolitionist and, therefore, for the dissolution of the Union."†   (source)
  • Every little while, I could hear something about the abolitionists.   (source)
  • From this time I understood the words abolition and abolitionist, and always drew near when that word was spoken, expecting to hear something of importance to myself and fellow-slaves.   (source)
    abolition = the act of ending a system or practice or institution
  • If a slave ran away and succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did any thing very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as the fruit of abolition.   (source)
  • After a patient waiting, I got one of our city papers, containing an account of the number of petitions from the north, praying for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and of the slave trade between the States.   (source)
  • Perhaps he could say a few words on the Abolition question?†   (source)
  • He is a leader in the crusade for free schooling, and for the abolition of alcoholic beverages.†   (source)
  • Clarkson became the driving force behind the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.†   (source)
  • I have got sick and tired of them …. and I shall hereafter let abolition alone….†   (source)
  • However, there is a big difference between silence and abolition.†   (source)
  • Yes, but Holabird's right, those abolitionists can't be trusted.†   (source)
  • Like many other former Abolitionists, she became interested in the movement for women's suffrage.†   (source)
  • Like the Abolitionists, she believed slavery to be morally wrong—for masters and slaves alike.†   (source)
  • And so the activities of abolitionists persisted.†   (source)
  • ' " Not all antiabolitionist soldiers experienced such a conversion.†   (source)
  • Tappan was undeterred, as were most of the abolitionists.†   (source)
  • But the Abolitionists were appalled, and talked of rescuing Sims.†   (source)
  • The abolitionists were still widely perceived as religious extremists by most people in the country.†   (source)
  • But Choate had no desire to become involved with the abolitionists or their extreme beliefs.†   (source)
  • You and I both know, however, that the abolitionists will raise a major row.†   (source)
  • Abolitionists believed in immediate cessation of slavery and complete emancipation of all slaves.†   (source)
  • There are also the fringe groups to consider, sir, especially abolitionists.†   (source)
  • As the court is aware, abolitionists have made themselves cozy with the Amistad negroes.†   (source)
  • They were the religious extremists, the abolitionists.†   (source)
  • I will not make treaties with abolitionists, nor will I be seen as compromising on this issue.†   (source)
  • Sir, the charge that I am going with the Abolitionists or Free-Soilers affects me not.†   (source)
  • But it was not understood by the Abolitionists and Free Soilers of 1850.†   (source)
  • But you wouldn't have been considered foolish 2,500 years ago, even though there were already progressive voices in favor of slavery's abolition.†   (source)
  • It was reserved for the graduates of public elementary schools, and, in a measure of how deeply the British felt about honoring the memory of abolition, there was a total of one Centenary scholarship awarded every year for the whole island, with the prize going to the top girl and the top boy in alternating years.†   (source)
  • No. The Illuminati may have believed in the abolition of Christianity, but they wielded their power through political and financial means, not through terrorists acts.†   (source)
  • The man in Roomette 2, Car No. 9, was a professor of economics who advocated the abolition of private property, explaining that intelligence plays no part in industrial production, that man's mind is conditioned by material tools, that anybody can run a factory or a railroad and it's only a matter of seizing the machinery.†   (source)
  • Oliver declared that the armed struggle would intensify until the government was prepared to negotiate the abolition of apartheid.†   (source)
  • Overflowing with energy and goodwill, he was ardent for reform of all kinds: smallpox inoculation for the poor, humane care for the insane, reform of the penal code, but especially for the abolition of slavery.†   (source)
  • At the instigation of the Communist Party and the Indian Congress, the convention passed a resolution for a one-day general strike, known as Freedom Day, on May 1, calling for the abolition of the pass laws and all discriminatory legislation.†   (source)
  • But Wilberforce joined after abolitionism was well under way, and the public wasn't stirred solely by Wilberforce's eloquence.†   (source)
  • Attempts by their masters to reclaim these fugitives turned soldiers previously indifferent toward slavery into practical abolitionists.†   (source)
  • In the 1790s, it was common to dismiss the abolitionists as idealistic moralizers who didn't appreciate economics or understand geopolitical complexities such as the threat from France.†   (source)
  • She was unaware of the fact that Brown and his assistants kept referring to her in the letters that they sent to the Boston Abolitionists who were helping to finance his project.†   (source)
  • A private in the 6th Kentucky complained in the spring of 1864 that "this is nothing but an abolition war….†   (source)
  • That image became the icon of the abolitionist movement, and it underscored an important point: Clarkson and the abolitionists were scrupulous about not exaggerating.†   (source)
  • By June, 1863, he had become converted to the idea that abolition of slavery was "a means of haistening the speedy Restoration of the union and the termination of the war."†   (source)
  • The New Abolitionists Zach Hunter was twelve years old and living with his family in Atlanta when he heard in school that forms of slavery still exist in the world today.†   (source)
  • With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December, the long period of agitation for the abolition of slavery came to an end.†   (source)
  • It's a useful lesson that what ultimately mattered wasn't just the abolitionists' passion and moral conviction but also the meticulously amassed evidence of barbarity.†   (source)
  • In the letter he not only expressed his own conviction that the Fugitive Slave Law was wrong, but he eloquently expressed the refusal of the Abolitionists to obey the law: "….†   (source)
  • Many of them reached a tacit consensus, which some voiced openly: Confederate soldiers had not fought for slavery; Union soldiers had not fought for its abolition.†   (source)
  • On the eve of the British abolition of slave-trading, British ships carried 52 percent of the slaves transported across the Atlantic, and British colonies produced 55 percent of the world's sugar.†   (source)
  • And while the abolition of slavery was one of the two great results of the Civil War—the other being preservation of one nation indivisible—not many Union soldiers claimed to fight primarily for that purpose.†   (source)
  • Actually it only served to widen it, primarily because of the terms of the new law covering fugitive slaves. ln the North, men who had been indifferent to slavery, men who had been openly hostile toward the Abolitionists, men who hated Garrison and his newspaper, The Liberator, with a deep and abiding hatred, were stirred to anger.†   (source)
  • Sugar production in the British West Indies fell 25 percent in the first thirty-five years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, while production in competing slave economies rose by 210 percent.†   (source)
  • Had the Michigan sergeant lived to witness the North's retreat from Reconstruction in the 1870s and the South's disfranchisement and formalized segregation of blacks in the 1890s, he might have wondered whether the abolition of slavery had revolutionized everything after all.†   (source)
  • Its example ultimately prompted France to abolish slavery in 1848, inspired the American abolitionists and the Emancipation Proclamation, and pushed Cuba to enforce a ban on slave imports in 1867, in effect ending the transatlantic slave trade.†   (source)
  • An artillery major from New York, a Democrat like so many officers in the Army of the Potomac under McClellan, wrote that if Lincoln caved in to "these 'black Republicans' and made it "an abolition war[,] ….†   (source)
  • Winston Churchill suggested that the British people's "finest hour" was their resistance to the Nazis in the 1940s, but at least as noble an hour was the moral quickening in Britain that led to the abolition of slavery.†   (source)
  • But if "emancipation per se" meant a perception that the abolition of slavery was inseparably linked to the goal of preserving the Union, then almost three in ten Union soldiers took this position during the first year and a half of the war, and many more were eventually converted to it.†   (source)
  • The abolitionists considered the pro-slavery judge's absence not luck, but a direct intervention by God to improve the odds in the case.†   (source)
  • But anti-slavery sentiment did not always, or even frequently, translate into a desire for immediate abolition.†   (source)
  • But I also believe that the methods of the abolitionists as a whole have been dangerously close to sedition on a number of occasions.†   (source)
  • As he listened to the arguments he took special note of where Lewis Tappan and the other abolitionists sat.†   (source)
  • His stance on slavery and the gag rule won him respect in the North and a level of hate in the South generally reserved for abolitionists.†   (source)
  • To the vast majority of the American population, such talk of abolition was not only nonsensical claptrap, it was patently dangerous.†   (source)
  • It is well known that abolitionists are responsible for spiriting runaway slaves out of the country through the so-called underground railway.†   (source)
  • Though few in number, abolitionists were well organized, vocal, passionate, and possessed by a fervent, religious zeal for their cause.†   (source)
  • Subsequently, Tappan began positioning two faithful abolitionists next to Singbe at each stop for protection.†   (source)
  • He constantly heard talk that pressing abolition could cause civil war, but he didn't believe it would ever happen.†   (source)
  • Even the more liberal Northern papers expressed outrage at the action and identified it as an obvious manipulation by Tappan and the abolitionists.†   (source)
  • Lewis Tappan continued pursuing his cause of abolitionism and after the U.S. Civil War worked to establish civil rights for blacks.†   (source)
  • "There are many men who believe you abolitionists pulled one over on the government, Tappan," he yelled.†   (source)
  • Perhaps someone promised him his freedom if he could get Tappan or another member of the committee to expose the abolitionists' contacts with the underground railroad.†   (source)
  • But while both brothers believed strongly in the cause and worked tirelessly toward spreading its doctrine, it was Lewis who embodied abolition-word, deed, and spirit.†   (source)
  • Though he did not trust or like abolitionists and believed their agenda would ultimately divide the union, he had a sneaking admiration for Tappan and his abilities.†   (source)
  • Baldwin laughed and assured Tappan that there was nothing to worry about, that the ship was nothing more than some sort of scare tactic, perhaps to get the abolitionists to make a rash move.†   (source)
  • He had been invited to several discreet meetings with various upper-level British government officials to discuss slavery in America and the abolition movement.†   (source)
  • Though he was not sure what new evidence the abolitionists would marshal, he assured Forsyth that a writ of habeas corpus would never be granted in his court.†   (source)
  • The most important thing was that people were talking-about the case, about slavery, and about the virtues and vices of abolition and the current American system.†   (source)
  • Despite being an ardent supporter of abolition, he was respected throughout the state's political circles as an articulate, principled, and fair-minded man.†   (source)
  • -and his horde of lunatic abolitionists had descended upon the scene, conjuring up a defense team that would no doubt do all they could to prolong the judicial proceedings for as long as possible.†   (source)
  • He had hoped that in the end the Amistads, especially Singbe, would want to stay in America and help the abolitionists in their attempts to secure freedom for slaves nationwide.†   (source)
  • But it appears the abolitionists will have to present something that was neither seen nor heard in the circuit court proceedings, something very different and indisputable in the eyes of the law, to change the course of this case.†   (source)
  • Many recognized that if the abolitionists were permitted to spread their emotionally volatile dogma and rage, it would only be a matter of time before the country degenerated into some sort of civil war.†   (source)
  • After all, in 1839, abolitionists were considered occupants of the radical fringe', religious zealots bent on destroying the natural order of things, and, some would say, tearing the United States apart.†   (source)
  • It was also hoped that the mission would be the first step in a counteroffensive aimed at the efforts of the American Missionary Society, which the abolitionists saw as a tainted organization because they were associated with the American Colonization Society, a group which worked to send freed American blacks back to Africa.†   (source)
  • Abolitionists.†   (source)
  • After the confrontation, appalled at what had to be some military alliance between abolitionist Russia (Nicholas having freed the serfs in 1861) and a Union that paid lip service to abolition while it kept its own industrial laborers in a kind of wage-slavery, Peter Pinguid stayed in his cabin for weeks, brooding.†   (source)
  • For many on both sides—the Abolitionists in the North, the fire-eaters in the South, men who were wholly convinced of the rightness of their section's cause—the decision came easily.†   (source)
  • Now isolated from his political friends in the West and South, and yet maintaining his distaste for the Abolitionists, whom he held equally responsible for splitting the Union, Benton steered an extraordinarily independent course in his vituperative attacks on Clay's compromise.†   (source)
  • And in his last great address to the Senate, read for him on March 4, only a few short weeks before his death, while he sat by too feeble to speak, he declared, "The South will be forced to choose between abolition and secession."†   (source)
  • Calhoun, successful in obtaining adoption of his resolutions by several Southern legislatures, denounced Benton to his Missouri enemies as one "false to the South for the last ten years…… He can do us much less injury in the camp of the abolitionists than he could in our own camp.†   (source)
  • To some extent he had attempted to shrug off his attackers, stating that he had expected to be libeled and abused, particularly by the Abolitionists and intellectuals who had previously scorned him, much as George Washington and others before him had been abused.†   (source)
  • But now, Texas, with 150,000 valuable slaves and an overwhelmingly Democratic population consisting largely of citizens from other Southern states, identified its interests with those Houston had attacked; and with near unanimity she cried for Houston's scalp as one who had "betrayed his state in the Senate," "joined the Abolitionists" and "deserted the South."†   (source)
  • One of the few members of Congress who still brought his slaves with him to his Washington household, he nevertheless was equally opposed to the Abolitionists and the secessionists, to the permanent extension of this evil into new territory by the South and to the partisan exploitation of its miseries by Northern agitators.†   (source)
  • The Compromise would be condemned by the Southern extremists as appeasement, chiefly on its first and fourth provisions; and by the Northern abolitionists as 90 per cent concessions to the South with a meaningless 10 per cent sop thrown to the North, particularly because of the second and fifth provisions.†   (source)
  • She is an abolitionist, and he is most certainly not.†   (source)
  • I have turned out to be a right out and out Abolitionist.†   (source)
  • The abolitionist movement would be far more effective if it forged unity in its own ranks.†   (source)
  • I am as confirmed an abolitionist as ever was pelted with stale eggs.†   (source)
  • His research so horrified him that he became an ardent abolitionist for life.†   (source)
  • But we will still feel considerable heat from the press sympathetic to the abolitionist cause.†   (source)
  • But now the abolitionist saw that any more delay might be too dangerous.†   (source)
  • Syracuse was an Abolitionist stronghold, and the church bells were used to give the alarm whenever a fugitive was in danger.†   (source)
  • Though the Standard carefully avoided all mention of Harriet Tubman's name, it was a recognized fact in Abolitionist circles that she was responsible for the panic.†   (source)
  • In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked "upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr."†   (source)
  • People said that in northern Ohio, where Levi Coffin operated the busiest branch of the Underground Railroad, it was impossible to put an Abolitionist in jail and keep him there, no matter how guilty he might be of harboring runaways.†   (source)
  • It's a prototype of the kind of alliance between first world and third that the abolitionist movement needs.†   (source)
  • An abolitionist clergyman's son in the 12th Maine wrote home from Louisiana in the summer of 1862 that "I do not want to hear any more about negroes when I get home….†   (source)
  • "I am no abolitionist," wrote an enlisted man in the 55th Ohio, "in fact despise the word," but "as long as slavery exists …. there will be no permanent peace for America….†   (source)
  • In particular, many women have risen as social entrepreneurs to provide leadership in the new abolitionist movement against sex traffickers.†   (source)
  • I am [now] a strong abolitionist.†   (source)
  • His MySpace page describes his occupation as "abolitionist/student," and his hero is William Wilberforce.†   (source)
  • The abolitionist who overcame that challenge was Thomas Clarkson, who had first become interested in the issue as a student at Cambridge when he wrote about slaves for a Latin contest.†   (source)
  • But young Welton became a Republican, and by early 1865 he sounded just like an abolitionist when he wrote in joyful anticipation of a restored nation "free free free yes free from that blighting curs Slavery the cause of four years of Bloody Warfare."†   (source)
  • That image became the icon of the abolitionist movement, and it underscored an important point: Clarkson and the abolitionists were scrupulous about not exaggerating.†   (source)
  • The antebellum propaganda war between North and South had created in southern minds an image of the hated Yankees as an amalgam of money-grubbing mudsill Black Republican abolitionist Goths and Vandals.†   (source)
  • Credit for the abolitionist movement usually goes to William Wilberforce, and indeed he was one of the foremost leaders of the movement and the one who turned the tide.†   (source)
  • That's what happened two centuries ago in the abolitionist movement, when liberal deists and conservative evangelicals joined forces to overthrow slavery.†   (source)
  • As we've said, this movement won't be led by the president or by members of Congress, any more than their historical counterparts led the civil rights or abolitionist movements--but if leaders smell votes, they will follow.†   (source)
  • A Cambodian teenager, kidnapped and sold to a brothel, in the room where she works (Nicholas D. Kristof) One reason the modern abolitionist movement hasn't been more effective is the divisive politics of prostitution.†   (source)
  • Tappan and Jocelyn used a network of abolitionist sympathizers and clergy to identify the best places for the Africans to appear.†   (source)
  • And when Tappan approached Webster personally, it seemed as if the abolitionist's powers of persuasion might win out.†   (source)
  • As Forsyth saw it, Judson's decision was not the sudden enlightenment that the abolitionist papers were claiming.†   (source)
  • However, the man continued, he had no wish to become personally aligne'd with the abolitionist movement.†   (source)
  • What I want to know is how long would you say this whole thing will take to run its course in the papers, other than the abolitionist rags, I mean?†   (source)
  • Staples, a tall, lean, well-dressed man not quite thirty with whiskey-colored hair and a broad Roman nose, was a Democrat from an affluent family and an admitted abolitionist.†   (source)
  • Tappan further assured him that statements would be made letting the press know unequivocally that the man's involvement was in no way an endorsement of the abolitionist cause.†   (source)
  • Forsyth was certain that the twisted abolitionist was at this very moment planning some contrived event to give fresh blood and juice to the journalistic hounds.†   (source)
  • The Tappan brothers were early supporters of the abolitionist cause as well as grand-nephews of the founder of America's first abolitionist society, Benjamin Franklin.†   (source)
  • Sedgwick, also a known abolitionist, was a thick unkempt man with a ruddy complexion, fat and reaching sideburns, and a rapidly receding dark brown hairline.†   (source)
  • Though not an abolitionist, Adams was a vehement opponent of slavery and became the prime crusader against the "gag rule," a parliamentary order passed in 1836 by the House that forbade discussion of slavery on the House floor.†   (source)
  • Tappan had seen these men as his best chance for making a national statement and generating extensive press coverage— two things his instincts told him were essential to furthering the abolitionist cause.†   (source)
  • The mob outside had stomached enough of the agitating pamphlets, the probing articles in the Tappan-supported abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator, and the scathing street-corner stump speeches given by the Tappans and their followers.†   (source)
  • Nine out of twenty-two Democratic papers in the state are unbounded in vilifying him with such epithets as traitor, apostate, scoundrel, barn burner, abolitionist and free-soiler ….†   (source)
  • The New York Tribune considered it "unequal to the occasion and unworthy of its author"; the New York Evening Post spoke in terms of a "traitorous retreat …. a man who deserted the cause which helately defended"; and the Abolitionist press called it "the scarlet infamy of Daniel Webster…… An indescribably base and wicked speech."†   (source)
  • James Blaine, when his tears were dry, was to write of the Sumner eulogy that "it was a mark of positive genius in a Southern representative to pronounce a fervid and discriminating eulogy upon Mr. Sumner, and skillfully interweave with it a defense of that which Mr. Sumner, like John Wesley, believed to be the sum of all villainies " Southerners to whom Charles Sumner symbolized the worst of the prewar Abolitionist movement and the postwar reconstruction felt betrayed.†   (source)
  • Some historians—particularly those who wrote in the latter half of the nineteenth century under the influence of the moral earnestness of Webster's articulate Abolitionist foes—do not agree with Allan Nevins, Henry Steele Commager, Gerald Johnson and others who have praised the Seventh of March speech as "the highest statesmanship ….†   (source)
  • Sometimes I think the Abolitionists have got the right idea.†   (source)
  • Turner did it because she was from Boston where the Abolitionists are.'†   (source)
  • Merely to insist that slavery was an evil would sound like abolitionism and offend the Negrophobes.†   (source)
  • Well, why don't you preach Abolition right here?†   (source)
  • "Perhaps I shall preach Abolition," Cass said, "some day.†   (source)
  • The so-called 'abolition of private property' which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before: but with this difference, that the new owners were a group instead of a mass of individuals.†   (source)
  • These efforts, together with his strategy of appealing to abolitionists and Negrophobes at once, involved him in embarrassing contradictions.†   (source)
  • The criticism was hard to bear (perhaps hardest of all that from the abolitionists, which he knew had truth in it).†   (source)
  • Most of the white people of the Northwest, moreover, were in fact not only not abolitionists, but actually—and here is the core of the matter—Negrophobes.†   (source)
  • This Lincoln always publicly condemned the abolitionists who fought slavery by extraconstitutional means—and condemned also the mobs who deprived them of their right of free speech and free press.†   (source)
  • In northern Illinois he spoke in one vein before abolition-minded audiences, but farther south, where settlers of Southern extraction were dominant, he spoke in another.†   (source)
  • To please the abolitionists he kept saying that slavery was an evil thing; but for the material benefit of all Northern white men he opposed its further extension.†   (source)
  • He listened to the protests and denunciations of the Radicals and their field agents throughout the country, and politely heard abolition delegations to the White House.†   (source)
  • The committee reported proslavery resolutions, presently adopted, which praised the beneficent effects of white civilization upon African natives, cited the wretchedness of emancipated Negroes as proof of the folly of freedom, and denounced abolitionists.†   (source)
  • Further, a great section of conservative Northern opinion was willing to fight for the Union but might refuse to support a war to free Negroes, and kept insisting that the war would become more bitter if the South saw that it was fighting avowed abolitionism.†   (source)
  • In addition to abolitionists and Negrophobes, it united high— and low-tariff men, hard-and soft-money men, former Whigs and former Democrats embittered by old political fights, Maine-law prohibitionists and German tipplers, Know-Nothings and immigrants.†   (source)
  • Lincoln was not emphasizing the necessity for abolition of slavery in the near future; he was emphasizing the immediate "danger" that slavery would become a nation-wide American institution if its geographical spread were not severely restricted at once.†   (source)
  • Negrophobes and abolitionists alike could understand this threat; if freedom should be broken down they might themselves have to compete with the labor of slaves in the then free states—or might even be reduced to bondage along with the blacks!†   (source)
  • It read in part: "They [Lincoln and Stone] believe that the institution of slavery is founded on injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends to increase rather than abate its evils."†   (source)
  • To comprehend Lincoln's strategy we must keep one salient fact in mind: the abolitionists and their humanitarian sympathizers in the nation at large and particularly in the Northwest, the seat of Lincoln's strength, although numerous enough to hold the balance of power, were far too few to make a successful political party.†   (source)
  • Question: But you think that their abolition would damage a class of practitioners?†   (source)
  • Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.†   (source)
  • The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of Communism.†   (source)
  • Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.†   (source)
  • The abolitionists talked to him in several places; but I had no idea they could tempt him.†   (source)
  • He had not been urged away by abolitionists.†   (source)
  • Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form.†   (source)
  • She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul, the abolition of time, place and circumstance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanctification of all the dogmas.†   (source)
  • An international league whose goal was the abolition of capital punishment had just been formed in all civilized countries.†   (source)
  • They've already lessened the terrors of meningitis and pneumonia, and yellow fever is on the verge of complete abolition through Noguchi's work, and I have no doubt their hospital, with its enormous resources and splendidly co-operating minds, will be the first to find something to alleviate diabetes.†   (source)
  • The English abolitionists with whom we came in contact never seemed to tire of talking about these two Americans.†   (source)
  • That was the case at present, the only difference being that the competitive wage system compelled a man to work all the time to live, while, after the abolition of privilege and exploitation, any one would be able to support himself by an hour's work a day.†   (source)
  • Nations that considered themselves genteel may have abolished corporal punishment, but the belief that its abolition was a mark of true progress was only the more comic for being so unshakable.†   (source)
  • It was a great privilege to meet throughout England those who had known and honoured the late William Lloyd Garrison, the Hon. Frederick Douglass, and other abolitionists.†   (source)
  • Before going to England I had had no proper conception of the deep interest displayed by the abolitionists of England in the cause of freedom, nor did I realize the amount of substantial help given by them.†   (source)
  • When Mr. Washington rose in the flag-filled, enthusiasm-warmed, patriotic, and glowing atmosphere of Music Hall, people felt keenly that here was the civic justification of the old abolition spirit of Massachusetts; in his person the proof of her ancient and indomitable faith; in his strong through and rich oratory, the crown and glory of the old war days of suffering and strife.†   (source)
  • He had long been thinking of entering the army and would have done so had he not been hindered, first, by his membership of the Society of Freemasons to which he was bound by oath and which preached perpetual peace and the abolition of war, and secondly, by the fact that when he saw the great mass of Muscovites who had donned uniform and were talking patriotism, he somehow felt ashamed to take the step.†   (source)
  • You heard, no doubt, Avdotya Romanovna, when you were with them the story of the servant Philip who died of ill treatment he received six years ago, before the abolition of serfdom.†   (source)
  • Among the talkers, was Stryver, of the King's Bench Bar, far on his way to state promotion, and, therefore, loud on the theme: broaching to Monseigneur, his devices for blowing the people up and exterminating them from the face of the earth, and doing without them: and for accomplishing many similar objects akin in their nature to the abolition of eagles by sprinkling salt on the tails of the race.†   (source)
  • It's a beautiful Utopian dream of the abolition of war, diplomacy, banks, and so on—something after the fashion of socialism, indeed.†   (source)
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