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Fifty Notable Years

John G. Adams (John Greenleaf Adams) · 1882

passage 6 of 181 · CHAPTER I.

NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY; UNIVERSALIST PROTEST.

Mr. Garrison and His Associates.--Marlboro Chapel, "Eloquence dog-cheap there."--The Debaters.--Rev. John Pierpont and his Remarkable Plea.--Wendell Phillips's Reply to it.--Mobs in Boston and at Concord, N. H.--Denunciatory Spirit.--Anti-Sabbath Convention.-- N. P. Rogers and the "Herald of Freedom."--Momentum of the Anti-Slavery Reform.--Political Changes.--War of the Rebellion and Downfall of Slavery.--Universalist Churches in this Reform.--Protest of Ministers against Slavery. 58

REFORMATORY PROGRESS.

The Temperance Reform.--Its Rise and Course in the Past; Its Present Aspects.--The Peace Question.--War Spirit of the Past contrary to Christianity.--Growth of the Christian Idea.--Peace Publications.-- Sumner's Oration.--National Disputes can be settled by Arbitration; Instances.--Victor Hugo's Words.--Treatment of Criminals.--Capital Punishment.--Position and Work of Woman.--Other Questions. 66

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Fifty Notable Years · John G. Adams (John Greenleaf Adams) · 1882