Encounters
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As a Morgan County abolitionist noted in 1845, there were many “warm friends to the slave” in his town. Yet “quite a large portion of western people, who are anti-slavery in principle and who will subscribe to all the views of the abolitionists when presented to them in private conversation, still abhor the name abolitionist,” which they associate with “not only all that does belong to it, but every thing that possibly can be attached to it that is false, such as amalgamation, circulating inflammatory papers among the negroes in order to instigate them to insurrection, and a desire to do away with slavery by physical force. They also attach to the name all the views of [William Lloyd] Garrison.” An Urbana newspaper observed that abolition is “considered synonymous with treason, … disunion, civil war, anarchy and every horror [of] which an American can conceive.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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