ommon end--the ultimate extinction of
the foreign and domestic slave-trade.
FOOTNOTES:
[12] In the Library of the New York Historical Society there is "An
Oration Upon the Moral and Political Evil of Slavery. Delivered at a
Public Meeting of the Maryland Society for Promoting the Abolition of
Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes and Others Unlawfully Held in
Bondage, Baltimore, July 4, 1791. By George Buchanan, M.D., Member of
the American Philosophical Society. Baltimore: Printed by Phillip
Edwards, MDCCXCIII."
[13] Men of our Times, pp. 162, 163.
[14] Speech delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Cork Anti-Slavery
Society, 1829.
[15] Sumner's Works, vol. i. p. 336.
[16] At the election that took place on the 9th of November, 1846, the
vote stood as follows: Winthrop (Whig), 5,980; Howe (Anti-Slavery),
1,334; Homer (Democrat), 1,688; Whiton (Independent), 331. The number
of tickets in the field indicated the state of public feeling.
[17] Sumner's Works, vol. 1. p. 337.
[18] Church As It Is, etc., Introduction.
[19] Channing's Works, vol. ii. p. 10, sq.
[20] American Conflict, vol. i. pp. 25, 26.
[21] The following were the objects of the Colonization Society:
"1st. To rescue the free colored people of the United States from
their political and social disadvantages.
"2d. To place them in a country where they may enjoy the benefits of
free government, with all the blessings which it brings in its train.
"3d. To spread civilization, sound morals, and true religion through
the continent of Africa.
"4. To arrest and destroy the slave-trade.
"5. To afford slave-owners who wish, or are willing, to liberate their
slaves an asylum for their reception."
[22] The Republic, Sept. 11, 1850.
[23] National Intelligencer, October 23, 1850.
[24] Tribune, December 25, 1850.
[25] Herald, December, 17, 1850.
[26] It is to be regretted that William Still, the author of the U. G.
R. R., failed to give any account of its origin, organization,
workings, or the number of persons helped to freedom. It is an
interesting narrative of many cases, but is shorn of that minuteness
of detail so indispensable to authentic historical memorials.
[27] Judge Stroud, William Goodell, Wendell Phillips, William Jay, and
hundreds of other white men contributed to the anti-slavery literature
of the period.
CHAPTER VI.
ANTI-SLAVERY EFFORTS OF FREE NEGROES.
INTELLIGENT INTEREST OF FREE NEGR
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