Identifier: popularhistoryof00chen (find matches)
Title: Popular history of the civil war
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Cheney, C. Emma (Clara Emma)
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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on succeeded in getting Congress to pass a lawwhich gave to the master a right to seize a runaway slavewherever he might be found. All good citizens, so thelaw read, were commanded to aid and assist in the searchand capture. This was the famous Fugitive Slave Law,and it made a great stir. It was very natural that Northernpeople should not take kindly to slave-hunting; and espe-cially did this law vex the people of Boston. Indeed, the New-England States were so much opposed tothe institution or plan of slavery, that they wished to abolishit, or to get rid of it altogether. Those who felt in this waywere called abolitionists. In Boston a newspaper whichwas devoted to this cause was edited by William LloydGarrison. In Philadelphia a society called the AmericanAntislavery Society was formed, whose purpose was todestroy the system. This association sent books and pamphlets all over thecountry, declaring that slavery was a sin, and which wereintended to set men to thinking upon the subject.
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1859.1 The Reason Why. 9 Well, after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, therewas a great deal of trouble about catching the negroes whoescaped over the line. Many refused to assist the owners,and helped the slaves to get away; while the fugitives weresometimes treated in a very cruel manner both by citizensand by officers of the law. So, after that, the runawaysalways tried to get over the border of the United States intoCanada. The reason was plain. Canada belongs to GreatBritain : therefore our laws do not hold good there. Andcertainly it only seemed fair that the race which QueenAnne helped to sell into bondage so many years beforeshould find protection and freedom under Queen Victoriashappier reign. The Northern people grew every day more indignant astime went on. Speeches were made, books were written,even novels were founded, upon the wrongs of the coloredrace. Newspapers were filled with the dreadful things whichwere done in the name of the law in order to capture thesepoor

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