Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20)Sumner, Charles
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Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20)
Sumner, Charles
Slavery -- United States; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
In perfect shamelessness, and as if to blazon this fiendish spirit, we
have this winter had an article in a leading newspaper of Virginia,
offering twenty-five dollars each for the heads of citizens, mostly
Members of Congress, known to be against Slavery, with fifty thousand
dollars for the head of William H. Seward. In still another paper
of Virginia we find a proposition to raise ten thousand dollars for
the kidnapping, and delivery at Richmond, of a venerable citizen,
Joshua R. Giddings, “or five thousand dollars for the production of
his head.” These are fresh instances, but not alone. At a meeting of
Slave-Masters in Georgia, in 1836, the Governor was recommended to
issue a proclamation offering five thousand dollars as a reward for
the apprehension of _either_ of ten persons named in the resolution,
citizens of New York and Massachusetts, and one a subject of Great
Britain,--neither of whom was it pretended had ever set foot on the
soil of Georgia. The Milledgeville “Federal Union,” a newspaper of
Georgia, in 1836, contained an offer of ten thousand dollars for
kidnapping a clergyman residing in the city of New York. A Committee of
Vigilance in Louisiana, in 1835, offered, in the “Louisiana Journal,”
fifty thousand dollars to any person who would deliver into their
hands Arthur Tappan, a liberty-loving merchant of New York; and during
the same year a public meeting in Alabama, with a person entitled
“Honorable” in the chair, offered a similar reward of fifty thousand
dollars for the apprehension of the same Arthur Tappan, and of La Roy
Sunderland, a clergyman of the Methodist Church in New York.
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