It would be a mistake, let us remember, to regard the anti-abolitionist temper at the North wholly as apathy, friendliness to slavery, or the result of truckling to the South.
By 1850 there were few places at the North where anAbolitionist might not safely speak his mind.
Refusing to be classed with the Abolitionists, he was, in effect, the most efficient Abolitionist of them all.
He accompanied his refusal with a discussion of slavery and slave law quite in the abolitionist vein.
He was the publisher of The Observer, an abolitionist sheet, which had already been three times suspended by the destruction of his printing apparatus.
The division, far from hindering, greatly set forward the abolitionist cause.
Southern papers and Legislatures incessantly commanded that Abolitionists be delivered up to southern justice, their societies and their publications suppressed by law, and abolitionist agitation made penal.
The strictest laws were made to keep every slave in the most abject ignorance, to prevent their congregating, and to make it impossible for abolitionists or abolitionist literature or influence to get at them.
A bill, in 1836, for closing the mails to abolitionist literature, another defiance of the Constitution, Amendment I.
Owen Lovejoy was put to death by an Illinois mob for his offense in publishing an aggressively abolitionist newspaper.
They regarded allabolitionist movements as agitations seriously threatening the Union and recklessly risking the public peace.
It was not at all respectable, for even yet it was not deemed respectable in many parts of the North to be an Abolitionist, and this was distinctly an Abolitionist party.
Stand with the Abolitionist in restoring the Missouri Compromise, and stand against him when he attempts to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law.
They put all Abolitionistteaching under a common ban.
On the other hand, the name Abolitionist did not properly belong to those who were opposed to slavery, but held that opposition along with other political tenets and not as a supreme article of faith.
The Abolitionist papers were at first sent all over the South.
No Abolitionist of our day has denounced Slavery with more power, or vindicated the rights of the African with more sympathy, than Condorcet.
I was sorry to leave the Prestons, they were such whole-souled, earnest people; and before I did leave them I was a full-fledged Abolitionist so far as belief was concerned.
But I want an Abolitionist administration, and I'm going to get one.
Acting on their doctrine of equal rights, they traveled with their Negro friends, "sat upon the same platforms with them, ate with them, and one enthusiastic abolitionist white couple adopted a Negro child.
As he was an Abolitionist he said that he would accept only if Negroes were admitted on equal terms with other students.
Lieutenant Clemens resigned at the end of two weeks, and decided to go to Nevada with Orion, who was a Union abolitionist and had received an appointment from Lincoln as Secretary of the new Territory.
He had no occasion to meditate upon the bloody steps by which the enslaved and alien race would climb to the height the Abolitionist would stimulate him to attain.
A hurried note from the near neighborhood of Leavenworth informed me that a pro-slavery force, double the size of the abolitionist militia gathered to resist it, was advancing upon the position held by the latter.
There is not a statesman so wise but this war has given him new light, nor an Abolitionist so self-confident but must own its promise better than his foresight.
No Abolitionisthas ever dared to pillory the slave-propagandists so conspicuously as they are doing it for themselves every day.
Colonel Lamon, in his "Life of Lincoln," gives the following truthful sketch of the character of the man whom Lincoln made a Deist, and who in turn made an Abolitionist of Lincoln.
But there was one thing about it: Tom might be a Union soldier, but he was neither an abolitionist nor a horse-thief.
I wish from the bottom of my heart that when our armies get started they might sweep every abolitionist in the country into Massachusetts Bay; but they'll not be able to do it.
It is in this stage that the root-and-branch abolitionist and the fire-eater begin their really effective careers.
We ought to understand that the crimination of the root-and-branch abolitionist and the recrimination of the fire-eater were each but stage thunder.
Especially must we understand the internecine duel between free labor and slavery, and what was the purpose of the directors of evolution placing the fanatical abolitionist and the fire-eater upon the stage.
It required some years to bring affairs to this point; but it was accomplished at last; and the north was ready for the root-and-branch abolitionist and the south for the fire-eater.
Although there was much angry discussion and the crisis was grave, you ought to note that the root-and-branch abolitionist and fire-eater had not come.
Let us now glance at the stages following until the root-and-branch abolitionistshows himself.
And without the abolitionist at all the days of slavery were numbered, and they were few even if there had been no secession, and very few if secession had triumphed.
When the root-and-branch abolitionist inveighed against oligarchy and aristocracy, and aristocratic institutions in the south, he was just as mistaken as he was in denouncing what he asserted to be the guilt in morals of slaveholding.
Here the root-and-branch abolitionist and the fire-eater begin their several careers, and get more and more excited audience, the former in the north and the other in the south.
The abolitionist enterprises of the more western states, Iowa and Kansas, came too late to be in any way connected with the proposal of these bills.
Prosecution of Mitchell, anabolitionist of Indiana, Pennsylvania, for harboring slaves: 2 Wallace Jr.
That the number of escapes did increase is deduced from the consensus of abolitionist testimony.
It was also a practical means of bringing anti-slavery principles to the attention of the lukewarm or pro-slavery people in free states; and of convincing the South that the abolitionist movement was sincere and effective.
Allen Sidney, a negro who ran a steamboat on the Tennessee River for his master, first learned of Canada from an abolitionist at Florence, Alabama.
The risks and costs of a long trip were not too great for the enthusiastic abolitionist who felt that immediate rescue must be attempted.
He instituted search for them in Tabor, an abolitionist centre, and did not neglect to guard the crossings of two streams in the vicinity, Silver Creek and the Nishnabotna River.
Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace says that slaves landing on Cape Cod went to New Bedford, whence under the guidance of some abolitionist they were conveyed to the home of Nathaniel P.
As a shipper of grain and an abolitionist for twenty years in Racine, Mr. Dutton was able to turn his dock into a place of deportation for runaway slaves.
Amid all the varieties of anti-slavery men, from the Garrisonian abolitionist to faint-hearted slaveholders like James G.
He was a firebrand, infinitely more dangerous and incendiary than any Abolitionist whom he denounced.
Although from his youth an antislavery man, Lincoln was not an Abolitionist in the early days of the slavery agitation.
Before the Civil War the village was a station on the "underground railway," and the influence of the college made it a centre of extreme abolitionist sentiment.
In Boston, an early and most devotedAbolitionist was dragged through the streets with a halter about his neck; and in Illinois, another, while defending his press, was ferociously murdered.
But the luckless applicant, having consulted with an abolitionist friend, went next to Lincoln, and got him.
War, war to the knife, was the word on both sides, the only difference being that the knife of the abolitionist was a spiritual one, and the knife of the slaveholders a literal one.
But how little, apparently, from all that they ever say, do some of our abolitionist friends seem to think about Africa as a future jewel in Immanuel's diadem!
I have known the name of a leading Abolitionist to be the death of a subscription-paper for such an institution.
Paul had not an abolitionist mind, that is very clear.
I pray Heaven to deliver you from being an abolitionist in the cast of your mind, your temper, and spirit.
But what strikes me oftentimes is the utter inability of anabolitionist to say to a slave, under any circumstances, 'Care not for it.
Within the memory of men now present the leading statesman of Virginia could make genuine, red-hot abolitionist speeches in old Virginia!
Stand with the abolitionist in restoring the Missouri Compromise, and stand against him when he attempts to repeal the Fugitive Slave law.
Devoted as Benezet was to the cause of the blacks, he was not an ardent abolitionist like Garrison, who fifty years later fearlessly advocated the immediate destruction of the system.
He was among the foremost to visualize the wrongs of human slavery, but his real significance as an abolitionist has been greatly dimmed by the subsequent deeds of such apostles as Garrison, Phillips, and Lincoln.
This Quaker abolitionist knew it would do him good to witness the anticipated scene.
I am an abolitionistof the Garrison stamp, and there are others here of the same stripe.
This, I believe, is Mr. Lyons, the proprietor, who pledged a few minutes ago five dollars for every one dollar I would get from an abolitionist in this place.
The minister who preached was as earnest an abolitionist as the doctor, and brother Proctor preached as radical an abolition sermon as I ever listened to; it seemed like an oasis in a desert.
I will give you five dollars for every one you'll get from an abolitionist in this place," said the sparkling, black-eyed stranger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abolitionist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
