[A] This chapter was written in June, 1867, and I give it here as it
first came from my pen.
[B] Rev. Mr. Pierpont, who afterwards did good service, was absent in
Europe during 1835.
[C] See Appendix.
[D] See Appendix.
[E] See “Right and Wrong in Boston,” by Mrs. M. W. Chapman.
[F] I have been told, and I record it here to his honor, that Hon.
Joshua A. Spencer made an earnest, excellent speech, in behalf of free
discussion.
[G] See Appendix.
[H] Of Leicester, England, who first demanded “immediate emancipation.”
[I] See Appendix.
[J] On that occasion, or another, I am not sure which, Mr. Adams
announced another very pregnant opinion which he was ready to maintain;
namely, that slaveholders had no right to bring or send their slaves
into a free State, and keep them in slavery there; but that whenever
slaves were brought into any State where all the people were free, they
became partakers of that freedom, were slaves no longer.
[K] Elizabeth Heyrick, of Leicester, England.
[L] I am most happy to preserve and make known the fact that Dr. Henry
Ware, Jr., then at the head of the Divinity School, and Professor
Sidney Willard, of the college in Cambridge, were also members of that
Convention.
[M] Would that justice would allow shame to wipe forever from the
memory of man the disgraceful fact that, on the 27th of July, 1840,
the Rev. John Pierpont was arraigned before an Ecclesiastical
Council in Boston, by a committee of the parish of Hollis Street, as
guilty of offences for which his connection with that parish ought
to be dissolved,--and was dissolved. His offences were “his too
busy interference with questions of legislation on the subject of
prohibiting the sale of ardent spirits, his too busy interference with
questions of legislation on the subject of imprisonment for debt, _and
his too busy interference with the popular controversy on the subject
of the abolition of slavery_.”
[N] The one of which Rev. Baron Stow, D. D., was pastor.
[O] See Appendix.
[P] I advertised my request in “Notes and Queries” for August, 1859.
[Q] See “The American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery,” by
J. G. Birney, “Slavery and Antislavery,” by W. Goodell, and “The Church
and Slavery,” by Rev. Albert Barnes.
[R] See Appendix.
[S] Of the Theological Institution at Andover.
[T] President of Harvard University.
[U] Professor of Greek in Harvard University.