Abolitionists, mobbed, 71; burn U. S. Constitution, 72; private lives of leaders irreproachable, 89; become factor in national politics; Boston captured by; "slave-catchers" now mobbed; national election turns on vote, 95-6; anti-slavery in Faneuil Hall, 97; election again turns on vote of, 99; impartial observer on influence of, 105; Professor Smith on, 106 Abolition petitions in Congress, influence of, 102 Abolition societies, in 1840, 93 Adams, John Quincy, becomes champion of Abolitionists, 90; defends right of petition, 91 Alien and Sedition laws, 1798, 18; nature of, 19 Americans, world's record for hard fighting, 201 Andrews, Prof. E. A., slavery conditions South, 79 Anti-slavery people and Abolitionists grouped, 104; Douglas charged "Black Republican" party with favoring "negro citizenship and negro equality," 167 Aristocracy in South, 159, 160, 161 Articles of Confederation, 15 Author, antecedents, explanation of, 10-11 Author's conclusions, 242-3-4 Biglow Papers, 97-8 Birney, James G., mobbed, 87 Boston meeting, Dr. Hart overlooks, 73 Boston Resolutions, 64 Burke, Edmund, on conciliation, 109; spirit of liberty in slave-holding communities, 158 Calhoun, John C., prophecy of, 167-8 Cause of sectional conflict, Abolition societies and their methods, 205 Channing, Dr. Wm. E., encomium on Great Britain, 39; letter to Webster, 47; opinion of Abolitionists, 87; his change, 88 Characters and careers, of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, 188-192 Churches, North and South, opposition to slavery; a stupendous change, 67; "whole cloth arrayed against" Garrison, 68; Southern churches still defend slavery; Northern changed; Methodist church disrupted, 70 Coatesville lynching, 224 Colonies, juxtaposed, not united, 15 Colonization Society, origin of and purposes, 44; its supporters, 45; making progress; Abolitionists halted it, 46 Compromise of 1850; excitement in Congress, 106; great leaders in; Webster on 7th of March, 107; Clay's speech, 112; new fug h-4.htm.html#Page_219" class="pginternal">219; Johnson's reconstructed State governments swept away; universal suffrage for negro; South sends Republicans to Congress, 220; witnesses before "Committee of Fifteen" rewarded; Southern counsels divided, 223; carpet-baggers and scalawags, 224; intolerable political conditions; race issue forced upon whites, 226; whites recover self-government, 227 Republican party, the modern; its origin; Mr. Rhodes on, 138-139; nominates FrÉmont and Dayton; denounces slavery; excitement; defeated, 144 Resources, war, North and South compared, 191-2-3 Salem Church monument, 9 Santo Domingo, memory of massacre in, 80 Seceded States, wretched conditions in 1865, 214 Seceding States, desire to preserve Constitution, 179 Secession, early threats of not connected with slavery, 26; Josiah Quincy threatens, 1811; Massachusetts legislature endorses him, 28; in early days belief in general, 28; Massachusetts legislature threatens, 1844, 29; eleven States seceded, 179; Prof. Fite justifies, his ground, 182; motives for in 1860-1, 183 Self-government restored; local clashes, no race war; based on Lincoln's idea, superiority of white man, 229; constitutional amendments to restore purity of ballot, 233; industrial results amazing, 234-5; negro vote small—reasons, 231 Seward, leader of Republican party, 178 Situation in Alabama in 1835—letter of John W. Womack, 79 Slavery, Great Britain abolishes, compensates owners, 39; South's "calamity not crime," 48; debate in Virginia Assembly, 61 Slaves, protect masters' families during war, 132-3; a surprise to North, 133-4 Slave-trade, New England's part in, 37; South protests against; sentiment against arises in England, sweeps over America, 38 Social conditions South, 155-60 South unwilling to accept idea of incompatibility of slave and free States, 94-5; bitterness in, 101; on defensive-aggressive, 126; excited; filibustering; importation of slaves, 145 Spencer, Herbert, slavery once a necessary phase of human progress, 237 Sprague, Peleg, on Boston Resolutions, 66 Suffrage, Lincoln thought Southerners themselves should control, 203 Sumner, Charles, philippic against South; Brooks's attack on, 143-4; negro suffrage to give "Unionists" new allies, 220 Texas, application for admission, [1] Gladstone, "Kin Beyond the Sea." "The Abolition Society adopted the policy of sending documents, papers, and pictures against slavery to the Southern States. "If the intention was, as charged, to excite the slaves to revolt, the device, as it seems to us now, must have fallen short of its object, for the chance that anything could get into the hands of the black man must have been poor indeed. "These publications, however, caused a panic and a wild indignation in the South."—Sumner's "Jackson," p. 350. Why should the Southerners of that day go wild over conduct for which the professor of this era has no word of condemnation? Dr. Hart follows Professor Sumner's treatment. These are his words: "The free negroes of the South, the Abolitionists could not reach except by mailing publications to them, a process which fearfully exasperated the South without reaching the persons addressed."—Hart's "Abolition and Slavery," p. 216. Why should Southerners be "fearful" when they were intercepting all the dangerous circulars, etc., they could find? And why should they be exasperated at all? Dr. Hart's chair at Harvard is within gunshot of Faneuil Hall, yet the great meeting there of August 31, 1835, is not mentioned in either his or Professor Sumner's book, nor is there to be found in either of them any explanation of the reasons underlying the general and emphatic condemnation throughout the North at that period of the Abolitionists and their methods. Transcriber's note:Hyphenation is inconsistent. Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Page 49: 'Prior to the rise of the Abolitionists in 1831, emancipationists in the South had been free to grapple with conditions as they found them.' The words "in the" have been supplied by the transcriber. 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