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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ened in April; that attempts were im-mediately made under the law to frighten thepupils away, and to fine Miss Crandall forharboring them ; that in May an act prohibit-ing private schools for non-resident coloredpersons, and providing for the expulsion ofthe latter, was procured from the Legislature,amid the greatest rejoicing in Canterbury(even to the ringing of church bells); that,under this act, Miss Crandall was in Junearrested and temporarily imprisoned in thecounty jail, twice tried (August and October)and convicted; that her case was carried up tothe Supreme Court of Errors, and her perse-cutors defeated on a technicality (July, 1834) ;and that pending this litigation the most vin-dictive and inhuman measures were taken toisolate the school from the countenance andeven the physical support of the townspeople.The shops and the meeting-house were closedagainst teacher and pupils ; carriage in thepublic conveyances was denied them ; phvsi-cians would not wait upon them; Miss Cran-
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Kt\ SWll HL J MA/.PHOlOGK^rH IN rObStSSION OV MISS LUCY THAXTF.R, BOSTONT. dalls own family and friends were forbiddenunder penalty of heavy fines to visit her; thewell was filled with manure, and water fromother sources refused; the house itself wassmeared with filth, assailed with rotten eggsand stones, and finally set on fire. Such conduct on the part of a civilized andChristian community — the most respectablecooperating with the vilest citizens—was, afterall, faintly described by Mr. Garrisons phrase,. heathenism outdone, applied, and justlyapplied, only to the initial proceedings. It washis last comment upon the atilair, and very short,but the severity of it touched the Canterburypersecutors to the cjuick, ))articularly the fivemen whose names were printed in black letters— the magnates of the little \illage. Your re-marks in the last Liberator were awfullycutting, wrote Henry Benson; and MissCrandall herself inter))osed with a prudentialconsideration: Permit me to entreat

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