History of American Abolitionism: Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy.De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory)
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History of American Abolitionism: Its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the Southern Confederacy.
De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory)
Antislavery movements -- United States
"NOTICE--TO ALL PERSONS FROM THE SOUTH: All persons interested in the
subject of a meeting called by J. Leavitt, W. Green, Jr., W. Goodell,
J. Rankin and Lewis Tappan, at CLINTON HALL, this Evening, at 7
o'clock, are requested to attend at the same hour and place.
"New York, Oct. 2d, 1833.
"MANY SOUTHERNERS."
Southerners, however, had nothing to do with the meeting. At an early hour
people began to assemble in crowds in front of Clinton Hall, but the
trustees, or some others, had closed the premises. The throng, however,
still increased, and it soon became evident from the execrations mutually
indulged in by the people, that the authors of the projected meeting were
acting with discreet valor in staying away. William Lloyd Garrison, who
had then just returned from England, where he had been engaged in
fomenting excitement against this country, traducing its people and
institutions, and who was expected to take part in the proceedings of the
meeting, was an especial object of popular abhorrence and disgust, and it
is said that many grave and respectable citizens would have gladly
assented to his decoration in a coat of tar and feathers. Notwithstanding
the notification of "No meeting," Clinton Hall was opened and crowded to
suffocation. Speeches were delivered by a number of citizens, and a series
of resolutions, prepared by Mr. F. A. Tallmadge, were adopted, deprecating
any interference in the question of slavery, and expressing a
determination to resist every attempt on the part of the abolitionists to
effect their object.
It appears, however, that the purposes for which the meeting was
originally called were indirectly attained. Finding it much easier to
raise a popular whirlwind than to ride securely upon it, they prudently
and privately changed their place of meeting to Chatham street chapel.
Here the New York City Anti-Slavery Society was duly organized, having for
its object the "total and immediate abolition of slavery in the United
States." Its first officers were:--
_President_--Arthur Tappan.
_Vice-President_--Wm. Green, Jr.
_Treasurer_--John Rankin.
_Corresponding Secretary_--Elizur Wright, Jr.
_Recording Secretary_--Rev. Chas. W. Dennison.
_Managers_--Joshua Leavitt, Isaac T. Hopper, Abraham Cox, M.D., Lewis
Tappan, William Goodell.
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