The Abolitionists / Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights, 1830-1864

heir extreme hopefulness-their untiring confidence. No matter how adverse were the conditions, they expected to win. They never counted the odds against them. They trusted in

ing out alone and on foot, with his printing material on his back, to begin a crusade against the strongest and most arroga

ly consequence, the meeting for lack of a better place being held in a colored schoolroom on "Nigger Hill" in Boston, decla

ly gifted with controversial acumen. He and his minister, as often happened, were discussing the slavery question. The minister, like many of

exists in Kentucky, by talking and voting abo

s when we get control of the gene

Constitution, absolutely no power over slavery in the S

sitions advanced by my relative in trying to give a reason for the faith that was in him, until he was completely cornered. "Well," said he at last, "t

re was not a slave on American soil, and the ministe

eared the way and finally led up to a victorious organization. Year after year, and for many years, they voted for candidates that had no chance of election. Their first presidential ticket got only seven thousand votes in the whole country. The great public, which could not see the use of acting politically for principle alone, laughed at their simplicity in "throwing away their votes." "Voting in the ai

men who d

with two

to the p

ot try to hide his responsibility-in fact, he seemed rather proud of his aloneness-but he was mercilessly guyed on account of the smallness of