Synopses & Reviews
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. SLAVERY?AS IT WAS. Everybody now is anti-slavery. It is honorable now to be a child of the man who cast the first anti-slavery vote in our town; or called our first anti-slavery meeting; or first entertained Garrison as guest, or Abby Kelley, or Frederick Douglass; or rescued Stephen Foster or Lucy Stone from the hands of a ferocious mob; or raised, or commanded the first company of colored troops in the war of Rebellion, at the time when not a musical band could be found in the whole city of New York to play for a colored regiment, as it marched from the New Haven Railway station to the steamer at the foot of Canal street to embark for the seat of war Paid pipers the venerable Dr. Tyng with withering scorn called them all on the same evening in Cooper Institute, where he presided at a lecture by George William Curtis. Paid pipers, with wind too immaculate to blow away in escort of a gallant battalion of our country's saviors, when there was no other name under heaven given among men, whereby the nationality could be saved but the negro name; despised as he was and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted all his dreary life with grief Everybody now is an abolitionist, or son, or grandson of an anti- slavery parentage, and so all seem to claim equal honor, so far as honor is due, for ridding the world of the sublimest scourge and curse that ever afflicted the human race. Few now, however, have much conception of what slavery was; or what was genuine, effective anti- slavery, when slavery sat supreme on its throne of skulls, and ruled the whole nation, state, church and school, literature, trade, commerce, manufactures and agriculture, as with rod of iron And its first command, great command, only command was, Thou shalt have no...
Synopsis
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.