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Philanthropist, the, 108.
Phillips, Wendell, at Fanueil Hall, 129, 130-32; effect of his speech, 132, 133; quoted, 180, 198; 108, 123, 165, 210, 249.
Pierpont, John, 43.
Polk, James K., 204.
Presbyterians, and Abolition, 208.
Pro-Slavery Democrats, Northern, 23.
Quincy, Edmund, 210.
Rankin, John, 160.
Reformer, the, 54.
Republican Party, formation of, 142, 143,258.
Rhodes, James F., 142.
Richmond Whig, quoted, 104, 119.
Roman Catholics, and Abolition, 200, 207.
Ross, Abner, 187.
Rynders, Isaiah, his history, 203, 204.
Rynders Mob, the, 203ff.
Savonarola, Girolamo, 193.
Scott, Dred, case of, 257.
Sewall, Samuel E., 80.
Seward, W. H., 143, 1144.
Slave, the, beginning of G.'s devotion to, cause of, 42.
Slave-holding classes, manhood crushed out of, 22.
Slave Power, attempts to put down Abolition, 99 ff.; politics of the North controlled by, 138.
And see Slavery.
Slave states, and free . states, admitted to Union in pairs, 9.
Slave trade, constitutional provision concerning, 15; what it was, 15.
Slavery in the U. S., question of, overshadowing from 1830 to 1865, 2 if.; from G.'s point of view, 6, 7; a sleeping serpent in early years of U. S., 9; admission of Missouri and, 01; on every man's mind after 1820, 12; national policy of silence concerning, 13, 14, 15; reaction against that policy, 16 ff.; effect of G.'s first utterance on, 17; W. E. Channing and, 26ff.; attitudeof Northern merchants toward, 32, 33; vulture quality of, 48; friends of, and Channing's pamphlet, 87,88; J. Q. Adams and, 91; death agony of, began in 1830, 137; and Freedom, nature of
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