Identifier: lifetimesoffrede1882doug (find matches)
Title: Life and times of Frederick Douglass
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Antislavery movements Slavery
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Park
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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headed by one
of the wealthiest men of that city. The talk was that the
blood of some abolitionist must be shed to appease the wrath
of the offended South, and to restore peaceful relations be-
tween the two sections of the country. A howling mob fol-
lowed Wendell Phillips for three days whenever he appeared
on the pavements of his native city, because of his ability and
prominence in the propagation of anti-slavery opinions.
While this humiliating reaction was going on at the North,
various devices were suggested and pressed at Washington,
to bring about peace and reconciliation. Committees were
appointed to listen to southern grievances, and, if possible,
devise means of redress for such as might be alleged. Some
of these peace propositions would have been shocking to the
last degree to the moral sense of the North, had not fear for
the safety of the Union overwhelmed all moral conviction.
Such men as William H. Seward, Charles Francis Adams,
Henry B. Anthony, Joshua R. Giddings, and others—men
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Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison.
THE SOUTH WAS MAD. 371
whose courage had been equal to all other emergencies—bent
before this southern storm, and were ready to purchase peace
at any price. Those who had stimulated the courage of the
North before the election, and had shouted " Who"s afraid ? "
were now shaking in their shoes with apprehension and dread.
One was for passing laws in the northern States for the better
protection of slave hunters, and for the greater efficiency of
the fugitive slave bill. Another was for enacting laws to
punish the invasion of the slave States, and others were for
so altering the constitution of the United States that the
federal government should never abolish slavery while any
one State should object to such a measure.* Everything that
could be demanded by insatiable pride and selfishness on the
part of the slaveholding South, or could be surrendered by
abject fear and servility on the part of the North, had able
and eloquent advocates. Happily for the cause of human

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