Zach, Ole, a second Washington, an antislavery slaveholder, a humane buyer and seller of men and women, a Christian hero generally.
I trust he will find the opportunity he covets; and I know of none which promises better than his present plan of a Weekly German Antislavery Newspaper at Washington.
In his reply, Mr. Sumner attempted to obtain a hearing for the Antislavery cause and the Party of Freedom.
The Antislavery sentiment was thoroughly national, broad and general, pervading alike all parts of the Union, and uprising from the common heart of the entire people.
Secondly, I arraign it in the name of Freedom, as an unjustifiable departure from the original Antislavery policy of our fathers.
In the country, at this time, there was strictly no dividing line between Antislavery and Proslavery.
He believed that great popular movements can succeed only when guided by their faithful friends, and that the antislavery cause could not safely be entrusted to the keeping of one who "did not care whether slavery be voted up or down.
Antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs felt themselves drawn together by a common overpowering sentiment, and soon they began to rally in a new organization.
The ardent spirits among the antislavery men insisted that, slavery having brought forth the rebellion, this powerful blow should at once be aimed at slavery.
After a campaign conducted with the energy of genuine enthusiasm on the antislavery side the united Republicans defeated the divided Democrats, and Lincoln was elected President by a majority of fifty-seven votes in the electoral colleges.
The most eminent Republican statesmen and leaders of the time thought of for the Presidency were Seward and Chase, both regarded as belonging to the more advanced order of antislavery men.
Many of the radical antislavery men were never quite satisfied with Lincoln's ways of meeting the problems of the time.
Although yielding nothing in point of principle, it was by no means a flaming antislavery manifesto, such as would have pleased the more ardent Republicans.
Expressions of firm resolution from determined antislavery men were indeed not wanting, but they were for a while almost drowned by a bewildering confusion of discordant voices.
Finished that address, I said to friends near me, “This is my last Antislavery speech.
This was adopted as a characteristic seal by the Antislavery Society of London.
He and my father were closely associated in the antislavery movement and in the operation of the "underground railway" by which fugitive blacks were spirited across the line into Canada.
Until they became involved so deeply in the antislavery movement the wool business prospered; the fact was that my father trusted Brown's business judgment as being pretty good.
The genius of Cervantes has left a record of his gratitude to this Antislavery Society,[70]--herald of others whose mission is not yet finished.
The effort to establish a political test in the Whig party in opposition to the extension of Slavery failed; but the Antislavery sentiment was constantly active.
Disunion, bloodshed, and war, the consummation verbally of the original antislavery purposes attended with, 188.
Thus the consummation of the original antislavery purposes was verbally reached; but even that achievement was attended with disunion, bloodshed, and war.
In the very beginning of the Thirty-seventh Congress there came a series of antislavery measures which constituted a complete and decisive reversal of the policy of the Federal Government.
The Democrats opposed this act, but antislavery opinion gained momentum by increasing accessions to the ranks of freedom and by that unusual ability of the highly talented patriotic membership of Congress.
Next follows a dramatic presentation of the antislavery struggle with pen pictures of the participants.
This choice was received with much indignation among the antislavery leaders, for even Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison railed against the nominee and portrayed him as an obscurity.
Toward this end he launched a more determined antislavery program than ever before, advancing the doctrine that "a house divided against itself cannot stand" and likewise that "the Union could not endure permanently, half slave and half free.
After making a speech, in which he showed the evil effects of a sudden abolition of slavery, by relating his experience in San Domingo, he moved an adjournment until the next meeting of the Antislavery Society.
This feeling was increased by the action of William Lloyd Garrison, the founder of the society, who went to England, and joined with the antislavery men there in abusing this country for its inconsistency and crime.
The President could afford to overlook the misrepresentations and invective of the professedly opposition newspapers, but he had also to meet the over-zeal of influential Republican editors of strong antislavery bias.
To take advantage of this prejudice, Douglas, in his opening speech in the first debate at Ottawa in northern Illinois, propounded to Lincoln a series of questions designed to commit him to strong antislavery doctrines.
Upon this the old antislavery veteran felt himself agrieved, and, taking up his hat, marched out of the convention.
As a mere personal choice, a majority of the convention would have preferred Seward; but in the four pivotal States there were many voters who believed Seward's antislavery views to be too radical.
SIR, I am one of that number who have opposed abolitionism, or the political development of the antislavery sentiment of the North and West, from the beginning.
So with the antislavery fanatics; their conclusions are right, if their premises were.
The leaders of the two great political parties are grievously concerned lest the purity of the antislavery enterprise will suffer in its connection with politics.
One after another, those foremost in the antislavery conflict of the last half century are rapidly passing away.
Chief among the nays were the Democrats and the ordinary revilers of Antislavery movements; but the division did not indicate definite opinions on the resolutions.
I know as well as you the absurdity of those who call Antislavery a party of one idea, of abstraction and transcendentalism, &c.
There is, or ought to be, a head to every body; and whether you will or not, the slaveholder and the slave look to you as the best embodiment of the Antislavery idea now in the councils of the nation.
Sidenote: Growth of antislavery feeling in the North.
Congress could not prevent theantislavery people petitioning.
The antislavery leaders in the North attacked the bill with great fury.
But the Southerners were alarmed, because they felt that the Northern antislavery agitation would surely lead to more rebellions.
Then slowly others came to his aid, and the Antislavery Society was founded.
Some persons even argued that the antislavery movement would bring about the destruction of the Union.
But very many Northern men objected to the antislavery agitation because they thought it would injure business.
These phrases endeared him to the antislavery men.
Severely bleeding from his wounds, he was thrown into an open wagon and carted across country to the Milwaukee county jail, for the man hunters feared to go to Racine, where the antislavery feeling was strong.
Booth, the energetic editor of a small antislavery paper, the Wisconsin Free Democrat.
Fellow-citizens, individuals in each of the old parties strove in vain to produce a change, and to make them exponents of growing Antislavery sentiments.
Once more, it is said that the Antislavery Movement at the North, and particularly its political form, have caused unnecessary irritation among slave-owners, and thwarted a more proper movement at the South.
The government thus organized wasAntislavery in character.
When I see a person who cooperated with Antislavery men, and then deserted them, I say, He wants backbone.
It extended to the office of the "National Era," the Antislavery paper, which was saved from destruction only through the courage and calmness of its admirable editor.
The Antislavery resolutions adopted by legislatures at the North are regarded as expressions of individual or local opinion only, and not suffered to control the action of the national party.
This case, from beginning to end, is a curious episode of Antislavery history.
Thus early and distinctly do we discern the Antislavery character of the founders, and their determination to place the National Government openly, actively, and perpetually on the side of Freedom.
The AntiSlavery Sentiments of the Founders of the Republic.
A desire to do what I could against Slavery led me subsequently to attend two different State Conventions of Whigs, where I cooperated with eminent citizens in endeavor to arouse the party in Massachusetts to its Antislavery duties.
Attempt in the Senate to censure ex-President John Quincy Adams, who had become a Congressman from Massachusetts, for his attitude on antislavery petitions.
Wendell Phillips became a leader of the antislavery movement.
On April 12th, thirty-five days after Paine's plea for emancipation, the first American Antislavery Society was formed, in Philadelphia.
That this tradition is correct is now easily proved by a comparison of its sentiments and phraseology with the antislavery writings of Paine presented in previous pages of this work.
Misled by Rush's words, Paine's editors and our historians of the antislavery movement have failed to discover this early manifesto of abolitionism.
New antislavery societies were formed and old ones were revived and became aggressive, and in 1833 delegates from many of them met at Philadelphia and formed the American Antislavery Society.
The antislavery people, in hopes of drawing off from the Whig and Democratic parties those who were opposed to slavery, and so making a new party, nominated James G.
The bill to close the mails to antislavery documents failed.
The war was bitterly opposed by the antislavery people of the North as an attempt to gain more slave territory.
The antislavery newspapers grew more numerous and aggressive.
An attempt was made to shut antislavery documents out of the mails, and antislavery petitions were shut out of the House of Representatives.
In Charleston, South Carolina, the postmaster seized some antislavery documents and the people burned them.
Not content with this, the pro-slavery people attempted to pass a bill through Congress (1836) to exclude antislavery documents from the mails, and even attacked the right of petition.
But her life, in many aspects, might profitably have the attention of this younger generation, who know little either of her antislavery work or of her literary attainments or fame.
She helped to clear the way for the antislavery leaders,--Garrison and Higginson, Curtis and Lowell and Whittier.
In a short time thereafter she had published four more antislavery books or pamphlets.
She was married to the great abolitionist orator about fifty years ago, but before that time she had espoused the antislavery cause.
The result was the triumph of the antislavery party at the polls.
The antislavery party were thus placed in the ascendant, and the political power of the State was in their own hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antislavery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
