William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of SlaveryTuckerman, Bayard
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William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery
Tuckerman, Bayard
Antislavery movements -- United States; Jay, William, 1789-1858; United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
their mother--a lady whose memory I hold in very great respect, with an
affectionate estimate of her worth as a beautiful example of her
gracious sex, in all characteristics 'wherein there is virtue and
wherein there is praise.'
"I feel, at this distance of time, that I owe much to the friendship of
Judge Jay, apart from the pleasures it conferred upon me. How much he
taught me! How often his maxims led me to correct my faults, though he
never seemed to instruct, much less to rebuke! Even in his decline, and
when he was nearing the end, he favoured me with an occasional letter.
Need I say that, while entirely free from cant and pharisaic
professions, such letters were models of Christian submission, and not
less of 'faith, hope, and charity'? I have frequently reflected upon
them as I find myself approaching the end. His lofty example leads me to
say with the inspired moralist: 'Mark the perfect man and behold the
upright, for the end of that man is peace.'"
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
THE LIFE OF JOHN JAY. With Selections from his Correspondence and
Miscellaneous Papers. In two volumes, 1833.
WAR AND PEACE. The Evils of the First and a Plan for Preserving the
Last. London, 1842.
A REVIEW OF THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE MEXICAN WAR, 1849.
MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS ON SLAVERY, 1853. In which are collected:
Inquiry into the Character and Tendency of the American
Colonization, and American Antislavery Societies.
A View of the Action of the Federal Government in Behalf of Slavery.
On the Condition of the Free People of Colour in the United States.
Address to the Friends of Constitutional Liberty, on the Violation
by the United States House of Representatives of the Right of
Petition.
Introductory Remarks to the Reproof of the American Church contained
in the recent "History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
America" by the Bishop of Oxford.
A Letter to the Right Reverend L. Silliman Ives, Bishop of the
Protestant Church in the State of North Carolina.
Address to the Inhabitants of New Mexico and California, on the
Omission by Congress to provide them with Territorial Governments,
and on the Social and Political Evils of Slavery.
Letter to Hon. William Nelson, M. C., on Mr. Clay's Compromise.
A Letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, Representative in Congress
from the City of Boston, in Reply to his Apology for voting for the
Fugitive-Slave Bill.
An Address to the Antislavery Christians of the United States.
Signed by a number of clergymen and others.
Letter to Rev. R. S. Cook, Corresponding Secretary of the American
Tract Society.
Letter to Lewis Tappan, Esq., Treasurer of the American Missionary
Society.
PAMPHLETS.
Report of the Bedford Society for the Suppression of Vice, 1815.
Letter to Venders of Ardent Spirits, 1815.
Answer to Bishop Hobart's Pastoral Letter on the Subject of Bible
Societies, by an Episcopalian, 1815.
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