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...Abolitionist Charles Sumner, objecting to the treatment accorded Sarah took up her case. There was no 14th Amendment yet, but an 1845 state law had made it actionable to exclude any child unlawfully from public school. The case reached the State Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Shaw upheld the principle of segregation. His decision, in part, ran as follows...
Against him, nervous and unhappy in his role, was Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd-George (son of the late great World War I Prime Minister), whose position under the Queen gives him the final say in matters of criminal life or death. Himself once an ardent abolitionist, Lloyd-George lowered his eyes like a man condemned, as he outlined the government's position. "In taking life," he said, "the state performs its most solemn function . . . There can be no Home Secretary who would not be thankful to be relieved of this terrible burden. [But] if there is reason to think...
...been a less dedicated man, the abolitionist preacher called John Gregg Fee might have thought he had done enough for the illiterate mountain folk he had come to serve. On a desolate tract of land donated by Cassius Clay, he had established a whole new community at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains in Kentucky. He had dug the well, built the nonsectarian church, opened the one-room schoolhouse in 1855. But now, he wrote later in the American Missionary, "we need a college here . . . an antislavery, anti-caste, anti-rum, antitobacco, anti-sectarian, pious school under Christian influence...
...scholar, then, is not the irrational, ranting abolitionist type. They will search for deeper meanings. "They will ask what are we, all of us, here on earth for anyhow. . . . They will inquire about the meaning of men's dialogue with one another, and whether all human dialogue may not resolve itself in the last analysis into a dialogue with the God who put us here...
...defeat. Calhoun had spoken in principle for all minorities, but in practice he spoke for the slaveholding interest. In dealing with the tragic union of U.S. conservatism and slavery, Russeil Kirk, a bold writer, does not firmly grasp his nettle. He sidles away, with a glancing blow at the abolitionist innovators. He had a better case than he makes...