Speech delivered by Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, before the Whig State Convention, assembled at the Music Hall, Boston, Aug. 16, 1854. [presentation copy]

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Anti-slavery speech to a Whig convention by Josiah Quincy, Sr., former Federalist congressman, mayor of Boston, and president of Harvard College. Presented by Quincy to “President Walker,” i.e. James Walker (1794–1874), then current president of Harvard.

Quincy attacks the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 which he calls the “Nebraska Fraud.” Of the former, Quincy writes: “There is not a Negro in the South they can be compelled, even by his master, to cut the throat or blow out the brains of his brother Negro. Yet, so long as the fugitive-slave obligation remains in the Constitution, there is not a militia-man in Massachusetts who may not be compelled tomorrow to cut the throat or blow out the brains of a fellow citizen, at the wheel of the basest Southern slaveholder.” (p6)

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