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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 11: George Thompson, M. P.—1851. (search)
yet, how all the fiends of the pit are writhing and yelling! Not tormented before their time, but just at the right time. Truly, devils with devils damned firm concord hold ! The President of the United States is out with his Proclamation Feb. 18, 1851; Lib. 21.30. of Terror, conveying it to us in tones of thunder and on the wings of the lightning; even as though in the old Bay State chaos had come again, and a million of foreign myrmidons were invading our shores! A poor, hunted, entrappelard Fillmore, President of the United States! Henry Clay —with one foot in the grave, and just ready to have both body and soul cast into hell—as if eager to make his damnation doubly sure, rises in the U. S. Senate and proposes an inquiry Feb. 18, 1851; Lib. 21.30, 34. into the expediency of passing yet another law, by which every one who shall dare peep or mutter against the execution of the Fugitive Slave Bill shall have his life crushed out! Clay was especially horrified because the r