The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-11

Liberdtor. and in Georgia a law wGis enacted
Offering 81 5000 for Gsrrison's arrest, teid
and conviction.
v.
The treatment of the free negro in many
OF the free States was not much better than
that meted out to him in the South. In
Boston no merchant or mechanic could
take a negro apprentice without risk of
ostraoism. Public conyeysnces were shut
to negroes and the proprietors Of any stage
coach, packet or steamboat We're expected
on the objection OF a white passenger to
exclude blacks. All churches put negro
pews in, a. remote corner, In the, Baptist
Church OF Hartford these pews wero
boarded up in front. In the Park Street
Church. Boston, on one occasion the. negro
owner Of a pew in the body Of the church
was deprived OF. his seat and when he re-
sisted the deacons with the aid OF the con-
stable took possession and let It. In Ston-
ington the floor was cut out OF a negroIs
pew by order of the church authorities, and
an attempt TO found a negro manual train
ing 'school or college at New Haven threw
the town into violent excitement In 1882
a negress having been admitted TO a school
for young women in Connecticut. the Leg
islature Of that State enacted a law impos-
ing heavy fines Upon any IN who without
the written consent Of a majority of the
civil authorities and seleotmen should keep
a school for negro non-residents OF the
State and authorizing the removal of any
oolored person not. an inhabitant who
should reside in any town for the purpose
Of attending such an institution. o..
In another chapter we are reminded that
while the ~anti-negro outbreaks OF Is30-sa
we're still fresh in the minds Of the people
there came TO our shores Mr.. George Tiomp-
son. a distinguished orator in, the cause of.
abolition in Great Britain. He had been
invited by Garrison when the latter was in
England in 1888 to visit this country and
reached'N e York In September of the fol-,
lowing year. He was warned by the Courier
and Enquirer not to lecture in that city.
and was elected from the Atlantic Hotelat
the request Of an angry Southetner.--'Tarh-
ing eastward, Thompson began a lecturing
tour through New. England where on more.
than n occasion his presence was re-
sented. At Augusta the windows of bis
lodgings were broken and a Committee re-
quested him to leave town at once under
penalty OF being mobbed. Al Concord
stones were flung at him while speaking al a
woman's meeting. At Lowell an evening
meeting was prevented by a placard calling
on the people to rally and convince. the.
South thet it's rights would not be interfered'
with by the North. The mob came and,
finding the house empty, took possession
and adopted resolutions. At Lynn. Thomp-.
son was mobbed, and he was howled down.
at New Bedford. In the Southern States
he was especially hated. IL was bad enough.
the Richmond Enquirer complained, for
Garrison n Tappan to throw irebrands
into the South. but for Thompson. a foreign
er, with nothing American about him, to
NEEDLE with our institutions exceeded the
bounds OF patience. In Norfolk. Va, sub
scriptions to a fund for the purchase OF the
heads OF Thompson, Garrison and Tappan
were opened and merchants in many North
ern cities were threatened with the loss OF
Southern trade unless they declared against
the Abolitionists.
The mer hants Of Boston were p~articu-
larly sensitive TO the threat. In that city
when it was announced that Thompson
would address a meeting of the Boston
Female Anti-Slavery Society the Conn.,
mereidl Gazette and the Courier called on
the people to prevent it. The meeting was
accordingly postponed, but was held a week
later at the anti-slavery rooms Then a
mob. composed it is said Of the business
men Of Boston, had it's way. Gathering
about the door and filing the street before
the building, the crowd put up a cry for
Thompson thompson" who had been .
persuaded not to attend The Mayor as
sured the rioters of this fact, b~esought them
to disperse. sent a few constables into the,
rooms to break up the meeting and finally
came himself and ordered the women to
leave, which they did amid the ljeers and
shouts Of the crowd. A demand was then
made for the sign "Anti-SlaveIy Rooms"
which the Mayor ordered 'pulle down.
When this was smashed to rieces the cry
arose for Garrison! Garrison" who was
then in the anti-slavery office adjoining
the room. Fearful of consequences, the
Mayor ordered Garrison 10 leave the build
ing by the rear, which he did by dropping
from a window to a she'd and 40 to a car
p~enter's shop, where he was seized and
marched TO the Office of the Mayor, com
mitted to jail as a disturber of the peace
and taken OF in a carriage with the mob
in hot pursuit. Agar later the Legislature
of Massachusetts, in reply to resolutions
passed in various Southern 5 tates resolved
that it distinctly disavowe any. right in
itself or in the citizens of the Commonwealth
to interfere with slavery in the Southern
States: that the agitation of the question
OF slavery had interrupted the friendly
relations which ought to exist between
the States, was likely permanently to injure
the principles of the Union, could produce
no good results, but must do great and
certain harm and therefore urged the
citizens to abstain from all discussions and
all measures likely to disturb and irritate
the public mind.
vi,
It is well known that, although Texas de-
clared itself an independent republic in
March, 1898. it did not succeed in becoming
a part Of the Union until some nine years
later. The subject Is discussed in the six
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