[23] Ib., Vol. II, p. 202.
[24] Hart's "Slavery and Abolition," p. 163.
[25] Ib., pp. 217-20.
[26] "Life of James Buchanan," George Ticknor Curtis, vol. II, pp. 277-78.
[27] Referred to in "Life of Andrew Jackson," W. G. Sumner, p. 350.
[28] Hart, supra.
[29] The late Professor William Graham Sumner, of Yale, in his "Life of Andrew Jackson," 1888, treats of the excitement at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1835, during Jackson's administration, over Abolition circulars, etc. Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard, in his "Abolition and Slavery," 1906, treats of the same subject. The following extracts from these books will show how these authors picture that exciting period, and our italics will emphasize the sang-froid with which they touch off what so profoundly affected public sentiment, both North and South, when the events were occurring. Professor Sumner has this to say:
"The Abolition Society adopted the policy of sending documents, papers, and pictures against slavery to the Southern States.
"If the intention was, as charged, to excite the slaves to revolt, the device, as it seems to us now, must have fallen short of its object, for the chance that anything could get into the hands of the black man must have been poor indeed.
"These publications, however, caused a panic and a wild indignation in the South."—Sumner's "Jackson," p. 350.