The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences

on it of Abolition agitation, is the evidence of a quiet observer, Professor E. A. Andrews, who, in July, 1835, had been sent out as the agent of "The Boston Union for the Relief and Improveme

that a disposition to emancipate their slaves is very prevalent among the slave-holders of this State, could they see any way to do so consistently with t

53: "In this city there appears to be no strong a

freedom, nor during my residence at the South and my subsequent intercourse with the Southern people, did I ever meet with one who believed it possible for the two races to continue toget

g, Virginia, Profe

out a prospective system of emancipation. I even saw, as I believed, the certain and complete success of the friends of the colored race at no distant period, when these Northern Abolitionists interfered, and by their extravagant and impracticable schemes frustrated all our hopes.... Our people have become exasperated, the friends of the slaves alarme

Alabama, August 30, 1835, by a distinguished l

among our slaves.... Meetings have been held in Mobile, in Montgomery, in Greensboro, and in Tuscaloosa, and in different parts of all the Southern States. At these meetings resolutions have been adopted, disclaiming (sic) and deny

in mind. It had occurred in 1814-after manumission-and had produced, especially in the minds of statesmen a

Henry Clay, and of every other Southern emancipationist. And deportation, its expense, and the want

ssity placed upon his shoulders the responsibility of emancipating the Southern slaves. Serious as was the responsibility, the question was not new to him. When Mr. Lincoln said, in his celebrated Springfield speech in 1858, "I believe this gove

: "There is a physical difference between the white and black races, which, I believe, wi

cceed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery, and at the same time in restoring a captive people to their long lost father-land, ... it will, indeed, be a glo

o colonize persons of African descent upon this continent or elsewhere

ission to send the negroes, when freed, to the British, the Danish, and the French West Indies; and that the Spanish-American countries in Central America had also refused his request. He could find no places except Hayti and Liberia. He even mad