Inscribed on gravestone of John P. Hale (1806-73) in Dover:
He who lies beneath surrendered office, place, and power rather than bow down and worship slavery …
He was the first United States senator to take a stand against slavery.
Earlier, while serving in the federal House of Representatives, he refused to follow the New Hampshire legislature’s directive to support the admission of Texas as a slaveholding state. In the following election, barred by his party from running under its banner, he ran as an independent; none of the three candidates won a majority and the district went unrepresented.
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there are some people who you would just like to sit down and have a chat to!
I had not known about this person. There are so many who protested slavery and are not known. It seems that all that anyone wants to talk about is what an actual small percentage of people did and not talk about just as many people and more who did want to do something about slavery. Like end it.
Well said.
He seems to have been a man of principle
Indeed.