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But perhaps the most potent of all, one indispensable to thorough and lasting prosperity, is thus revealed by General Birney: "Although the United States has not hitherto directed her attention to art, her manifest destiny is to do so. The necessity of events will compel it.
One of the boldest of the abolitionists was James G. Birney, who like Rankin had come to Ohio from the South. He started a newspaper called The Philanthropist in Cincinnati, and for three months attacked slavery unsparingly in it.
Should a real Free Soiler vote for Van Buren, the probable effect being to improve Cass's chances over Taylor, just as the Birney vote four years earlier had beaten Clay and brought in Polk and all his consequences or vote for Taylor, trusting to his personal character and the influences surrounding him for a practical advantage to the side of freedom?
In Rochester he found himself in the region where the Liberty party, under the leadership of James G. Birney, Salmon P. Chase, Gerrit Smith, and others, had its largest support.
Prominent among these promoters was Levi Coffin, the Quaker Abolitionist of North Carolina, and reputed President of the Underground Railroad. He left his State and settled among Negroes at Newport, Indiana. Associated with these leaders also were Benjamin Lundy of Tennessee and James G. Birney, once a slaveholder of Huntsville, Alabama.
On the morning of the 22d, General Birney, who, during the temporary absence of General Hancock, was in command of the Second corps, was directed to move his corps forward, so as to press upon the left flank of the enemy. This he proceeded to do, without giving notice of his intention to General Wright. The result of the movement was to leave a wide gap between the Second and Sixth corps.
Birney and other abolitionists who had immediate knowledge of slavery early perceived that the real question at issue was quite as much the continued liberty of the white man as it was the liberation of the black man and that the enslavement of one race involved also the ultimate essential enslavement of the other.
Field was a practical abolitionist. Like Dr. Brisbane and James G. Birney, he emancipated his own slaves, and left Louisville on account of slavery, and made a home in Jeffersonville, on the Indiana side of the river.
Begad, he's a bully gentleman," observed a stout, frieze-coated fellow, with a large bunch of green linen yarn on his lusty arm "he is, and it's in him, and upon him, as every one that has eyes to see may know." The object of their praise, on entering the office of his friend Birney, found him at his desk, with professional papers and documents before him.
Being both endowed with a good degree of self-esteem, neither the praise nor the blame of mankind was overpowering to either of us. As the voyage lasted eighteen days for we were on a sailing vessel we had time to make some improvement, or, at least, to consider all friendly suggestions. At this time Mr. Birney was very much in love with Miss Fitzhugh of Geneseo, to whom he was afterward married.
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