George Latimer 305 The Annexation of Texas 313 Abolitionists in Central New York.--Gerrit Smith 321 Conduct of the Clergy and Churches 329 Unitarian and Universalist Ministers and Churches 333 Unitarians 335 The Fugitive Slave Law 345 Daniel Webster 348 The Unitarians and their Ministers 366 The Rescue of Jerry 373 New Persecutions 389 Riot in Syracuse 391 APPENDIX 397 RISE OF ABOLITIONISM. Ever and anon in the world’s history there has been some one who has broken out as a living fountain of the _free spirit_ of humanity, has given bold utterance to the pent-up thought of wrongs, too long endured, and has made the demand for some God-given right, until then withheld,--a demand so obviously just, that the tyrants of earth have trembled as if called to judgment, and the oppressed have rejoiced as at the voice of their deliverer. “It is thus the spirit of a single mind makes that of multitudes take one direction.” Such, as the subsequent history of our country has shown, such was the spirit of the mind of that man who will be honored through all coming time, as the leader of the most glorious movement ever made in humanity’s behalf,--the movement for _perfect, impartial liberty_, which for the last thirty-nine years has rocked our Republic from centre to circumference, and will continue to agitate it until every vestige of slavery is shaken out of our civil fabric. “When the tourist of Europe has descended from the Black Forest into Suabia, his guide asks him if he does not wish to see the source of the Danube. Only one answer can be given to such a question. So he is conducted into the garden of an obscure nobleman of Baden; and there, within a small stone enclosure, he is shown the highest spring of that river, which has worn its channel deeper and wider for sixteen hundred miles, and, receiving on its way the contributions of thirty navigable streams, enters the Black Sea by five mouths, thus opening a communication between the interior of Europe and the Mediterranean, bearing on its bosom the commerce of fifty millions of people, and bringing them into the community of nations.”