Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2

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Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2)?by Various

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Title: Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)
Author: Various
Editor: Julia Griffiths
Release Date: November 28, 2006 [EBook #19949]
Language: English
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AUTOGRAPHS
FOR FREEDOM.
EDITED BY
JULIA GRIFFITHS.
"In the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see my country's honor fade; Oh! let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade."
AUBURN: ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO.
ROCHESTER: WANZER, BEARDSLEY & CO.
1854.
ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York.
STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH, 216 William St. N. Y.
[Illustration: J. B. Giddings (Engraved by J. C. Buttre.)]

Preface.
In commending this, the second volume of "the Autographs for Freedom," to the attention of the public, "THE ROCHESTER LADIES' ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY" would congratulate themselves and the friends of freedom generally on the progress made, during the past year, by the cause to which the book is devoted.
We greet thankfully those who have contributed of the wealth of their genius; the strength of their convictions; the ripeness of their judgment; their earnestness of purpose; their generous sympathies; to the completeness and excellence of the work; and we shall hope to meet many of them, if not all, in other numbers of "The Autograph," which may be called forth ere the chains of the Slave shall be broken, and this country redeemed from the sin and the curse of Slavery.
On behalf of the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society.
[Illustration: (signature) Julia Griffiths]
Sec'y.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Contents.
Subject Author PAGE
INTRODUCTION (The Colored People's "Industrial College") Prof. C. L. Reason 11
Massacre at Blount's Fort Hon. J. R. Giddings 14
The Fugitive Slave Act Hon. Wm. Jay 27
The Size of Souls Antoinette L. Brown 41
Vincent Ogé George B. Vashon 44
The Law of Liberty Rev. Dr. Wm. Marsh 61
The Swiftness of Time in God Theodore Parker 63
Visit of a Fugitive Slave to the Grave of Wilberforce Wm. Wells Brown 70
Narrative of Albert and Mary Dr. W. H. Brisbane 77
Toil and Trust Hon. Chas. F. Adams 128
Friendship for the Slave is Friendship for the Master Jacob Abbott 134
Christine Anne P. Adams 139
The Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual Condition of the Slave J. M. Langston 147
The Bible versus Slavery Rev. Dr. Willis 151
The Work Goes Bravely on W. J. Watkins 156
Slaveholding not a Misfortune but a Crime Rev Win Brock 158
The Illegality of Slaveholding Rev. W. Goodell 159
"Ore Perennius" David Paul Brown 160
The Mission of America John S. C. Abbott 161
Disfellowshipping the Slaveholder Lewis Tappan 163
A Leaf from my Scrap Book Wm. J. Wilson 165
Who is my Neighbor Rev. Thos. Starr King 174
Consolation for the Slave Dr. S. Willard 175
The Key Dr. S. Willard 177
The True Mission of Liberty Dr. W. Elder 178
The True Spirit of Reform Mary Willard 180
A Welcome to Mrs. H. B. Stowe, on her return from Europe J. C. Holly 184
Forward (from the German) Rev. T. W. Higginson 186
What has Canada to do with Slavery? Thos. Henning 187
A Fragment Rev. Rufus Ellis 190
The Encroachment of the Slave Power John Jay, Esq. 192
The Dishonor of Labor Horace Greeley 194
The Evils of Colonization Wm. Watkins 198
The Basis of the American Constitution Hon. Wm. H. Seward 201
A Wish Mrs. C. M. Kirkland 207
A Dialogue C. A. Bloss 210
A time of Justice will come Hon. Gerit Smith 225
Hope and Confidence Prof. G. L. Reason 226
A Letter that speaks for itself Jane G. Swisshelm 230
On Freedom R. W. Emerson 235
Mary Smith. An Anti-Slavery Reminiscence Hon S. E. Sewell 236
Freedom--Liberty Dr. J. McCune Smith 241
An Aspiration Rev. E. H. Chapin 242
The Dying Soliloquy of the Victim of the Wilkesbarre Tragedy Mrs. H. H. Greenough 243
Let all be Free Hon. C. M. Clay 248
Extract from a Speech Frederick Douglass 251
Extract from an Unpublished Poem on Freedom William D. Snow 256
Letter Rev. H. Ward Beecher 273
A Day Spent at Playford Hall Mrs. Harriet B. Stowe 277
Teaching the Slave to Read Mary Irving 304

INTRODUCTION.
The Colored People's "Industrial College."
WHAT SOME OF THE BUILDERS HAVE THOUGHT.
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