The history of negro servitude in Illinois, and of the slavery agitation in that state, 1719-1864 (Google eBook)

Norman Dwight Harris

A.C. McClurg & Co., 1904 - African Americans - 276 pages

Contents

• CONTENTS: 1
• Slavery and the Constitution: 16
• The Contest for a Convention: 27
• Negro Servitude under the Con: 50
• The Lovejoy EpisodeIn St Louis: 68
• Lovejoy Monument Alton III Frontispiece: 69
• The Lovejoy Episode Continued: 78
• PortraitElijah P Lovejoy 68: 98
• The Slavery Question in: 99
• The Beginnings of the AntiSlav: 124
• The Origin of the Illinois Liberty: 146
• The Free Soil Free Democratic: 177
• Later Slavery Agitation and: 206
• The Progress of Sentiment on: 226
• Bibliography: 245
• Specimen Copies of Slave Papers: 258
• Table of Abolition Votes: 267

Popular passages

Page 205 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...‎

Page 217 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence— the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.‎

Page 218 - It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a territory under the Constitution; the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.‎

Page 214 - On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.‎

Page 217 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?‎

Page 259 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for...‎

Page 38 - ... nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order unless made on the same day on which the vote was taken, or within the two next days of the actual session of the senate thereafter.* Rule 20.] [1798, Jan.‎

Page 22 - ... unless such person shall enter into such indenture while in a state of perfect freedom, and on condition of a bona fide consideration received or to be received for their service.‎

Page 213 - Senator Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen...‎

Page 207 - That Hon. Abraham Lincoln is our first and only choice for United States Senator to fill the vacancy about to be created by the expiration of Mr. Douglas‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: The history of negro servitude in Illinois, and of the slavery agitation in that state, 1719-1864
• Author: Norman Dwight Harris
• Publisher: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1904
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 6, 2007
• Length: 276 pages
• Subjects: African Americans; Afro-Americans; Free African Americans; Illinois; Slavery; United States