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- 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.52 But to those who felt a dual loyalty to their state and their country, to those who sought compromises which would postpone or remove entirely the shadow of war which hung over them, the decision was agonizing, for the ultimate choice involved the breaking of old loyalties and friendships, and the prospect of humiliating political defeat.†
Chpt 2.0abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- 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.†
Chpt 2.3
- In New England, Garrison was publicly proclaiming, "I am an Abolitionist and, therefore, for the dissolution of the Union."†
Chpt 2.3 *abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- And a mass meeting of Northern Abolitionists declared that "the Constitution is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."†
Chpt 2.3abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- 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."†
Chpt 2.3
- 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 ....Webster's last great service to the nation."†
Chpt 2.3abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- But it was not understood by the Abolitionists and Free Soilers of 1850.†
Chpt 2.3abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- 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."†
Chpt 2.3abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- 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.†
Chpt 2.3abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- 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.†
Chpt 2.4
- 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.†
Chpt 2.4
- 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 ....I am afraid Benton will be defeated.†
Chpt 2.4abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
- 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.†
Chpt 2.4abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
- Sir, the charge that I am going with the Abolitionists or Free-Soilers affects me not.†
Chpt 2.5
- "joined the Abolitionists" and "deserted the South."†
Chpt 2.5
- 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.†
Chpt 3.7abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
Definitions:
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(1)
(abolition) the act of formally ending a system, practice, or institution -- most often used to refer to the movement to end slavery when no specific system is named
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)