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Richard R. Bolton View on Slavery (1859)
Copy of a draft letter by R.R. Bolton bearing the inked
note "Copy to Mrs --------- Lockport NY, Nov 1859"
Notes: (1) What appears as underlined, was in the draft
struck through and replaced (2) where blank lines appear,
the translator was unable to determine the text
Dear Madam
I take the liberty of replying to a paragraph of
your letter which Frank read to me in reference to the H
F affair. We live precisely as we did before with not a
door of the house locked or bolted day or night The
System of Domestic Servitude existing here has been
heretofore calculated to encourage mutual sympathy
between Master and Servant leading to gradual but
continual alleviation of the burdens and amelioration of
the conditions of servitude and leading to prepare and
educate the negroes for ********. This was the natural
tendency of the white and negro children, they are thrown
together in infancy and up to mature age and was just
such state of things as existed in New York, say twenty
or thirty years before emancipation there. Since the
The opinions of a very large majority of the people
20 years since was that continuation of slavery was not
in accordance with the spirit of the gospel but and that
while it could not be suddenly abolished without great
overall pecuniary loss to the Master and moral
degradation and physical suffering to the negroes yet
that the time was rapidly hastening when gradual
emancipation would prove salutary to both. They saw that
the same state of feeling had safely brought it about,
upon the ingress of white laborers to take the place of
slave laborers in severall Northern states, successively,
and further saw the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, & Kty
were evidently following in the same course & would in a
few more preparing voluntarily to pass laws for gradual
emancipation.
Had this natural course of things been allowed to
continue, emancipation laws would by this time I verily
believe be advancing into more states. But at that time
movement the first was that But at that time some well
meaning men and state more ambitious of distiction
thought it a good opportunity to follow the movement of
the English Abolitionists, and agitate for immediate
abolition. This movement was prompted and stimulated by
agents by the British government probably
in deference to the antislavery sentiment of England, yet
more with the object to creating a strong antagonism in
the United States of parties and sectional jealously for
the purpose of and the acts crippling the American
strength in the event of international disputes with
England, and prevent all possibility of American
in manufactories and commerce. Divide and conquer
was the English motto.
The result of the Northern Abolution Movement was to
stop at once the progress of Emancipation as the south,
principally as the continued agitation of the matter has
led a large majority of the people of the South to
investigate the scriptual views of slavery, and satisfy
themselves that the system is no where forbidden in the
Bible, but was permitted, if not designed by the Almighty
to work out for the negroes here & offer them
emancipation from ignorance, idleness & heathenish
. It has also, with the news of meeting
rebeling the more dancrerous effects of that agitation
when effort to scatter incendiary publication among the
slaves by means of abolution emissaries, led to
legislation by which the negroes have less freedon than
they formerly were permitted.
Nor can I see that abolition thus far has effected
any
material benefit to the negro in the North. He is
debarred from the large number of vocations that the
whites pursue. He can no longer drive an omnibus or
hack, or dray in the streets of New York. Nor is he
permitted to attend the churches of the whites, or
frequent their social circles. Can it be that "all men
are free and equal . "
And what of the condition of the free negroes in
other respects, to say nothing of the fugitive negroes
who suffer from cold and want, and disappointed
expectations in Canada. Their general paucity of numbers
in the North to a great extent prevents the inherent
defects & nils of their character from being generally
perceived, their. indolence, .veracity and (not large
full ) improvidence. What is the character
of the negro settlement in the vicinity of the towns &
what is the proportion of paupers & prisoners compared
with the whites.
Nor does the Experiment of Abolition in Haiti or
Jamacia justify the utopian dreams of its advocates. The
negro is an inferior race, and cannbe but gradually
advanced in social and moral culture.
But what has been the effect of the abolition movement
upon the the whites North & South
Indeed hypothetical England appears to regret be
sufficiently repentent of Abolition among the slaves
while repressing the Cooley trade of both England &
France, slavery remains in disguise, truly abolition
seems a curse. ~~
But what has been the effect result of the abolition
movement upon the whites, North & South. Once there was
a common pride in the glorious history & a common
interest in the welfare of the whole country.The
southerner northerner met as friends without jealousy and
without apprehension. The workshops and shipping of the
North furnished supplied the wants of the South & the
South made return in her products & the proceeds of the
sales .of her products in Europe. The question of the
holding of slaves had been settled by the compromises of
the Constitution (The subsequent Missouri was but a sham
intended to bend the South, but ever disregarded by the
North.)But, throughout the North Abolition was preached,
highly colored but false pictures of the South were
exhibited in lectures, sermons & books and under the
influence of these naked libels, a spirit of fanaticism
was enkindled, that led to the adoption of the dogma that
slave holding is a sin. Yea an unpardonable sin. Then
commenced the crusade of fanaticism against the South and
abolition commenced commenced its series of agressive
It was not enough to proprogate the doctrines of
Christianity and await their benficiant effects upon the
hearts & consciences of men, after the example of the
author, but the warcry of the Saracen, the Crusader , and
the Spanish Conquest of South America, must be followed
by the Bible and Sharps rifle.
Surely our Saviour could have denounced the
usurpation & tyranny of the Roman government in
Palestine, & excited an insurrection. He could have
refused payment of the tributes money & asserted the
right of liberty & equality, but his banners were
unscaled his weapons were love charity faith, patience,&
forebearance. While antichrist or fanaticism equally
affirms the sword & proclaims death to unbelievers. In
this spirit fanaticism has divided churches, tract
Missionary Societies.'Preachers, leaving the appropriate
functions of preaching the gospel, have become political
agitators ,
Encouragers of armed sedition & plotters of insurrection,
declaring the right of assassination, robbery, which they
know must follow to horrible to repeat and armed churches
with money and prayers, applaud the deed, regretting not
the crime but its failure.
The Harpers Ferry affair was, as the people of the
South believe but the natural fruit of the agressive
antislavery sentiment of the North whether called
abolition, freedom or Black Republicism. While few in
the North would delibertly plot the horrors of a slave
insurrection, yet the tendency of the whole movement is
certainly to bring it about, and little as those not yet
with B Republican Party may intend such a resultm yet I
fear they cannot excape the moral responsibility of it.
I have reason to believe Northern instigators have
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in the late Presidential Election prepared many regions
of the South for a general insurrection in the event of
Fremont~s election and that the election of the
candidates of the irrepressible conflict party would lead
to the same result, for the negroes can not draw the nice
distinctions of Northern parties.
While the South has been patient forbearing and
acting along on the defensive, she has been severely
tried but has felt reluctant to sever the ties that bind
her to the confederacy. But the formation of a large and
controlling sectional party at North by ambitious
leaders, notwithstanding the advice of Washington,
Jackson & others, its declaration of an irrespressable
conflict have awakened the people of the South & so far
as I am informed & believe it is the common sentiment of
the people of Mississippi, that on the election of a
black Republican president, the South should retire at
once from the Union. They are earnest & I am with them.
Although heretofore I have acted with the extreme union
men.
What the results of a separation may be, let us for
each section to judge for itself, but as for the South,
better no commerce with the North or open war than a
continuance of the present state of quasi war, offensive
North - defensive South.
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For the big Thanksgiving Dance aher the
game, we had name bands and they were
always name bands that were very good ones.
The Aggieland Band played for the Saturday
night dances.
The big RV dance in the spring lasted
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I'll go back
and tell you that there was no place for anybody
to stay on campus so the students would ask, if
they knew us, or happened to be in my father's
classes, if their girls could stay with us. We were
always glad to have them and use had many of
them every weekend.
When 1 was a-young lady and going to the
dances myself, ( always enjoyed the
intermissions. They were held at twelve o'clock
and one of the mothers would fix sandwiches
and drinks. Everybody that had been invited
would come with us as we strolled from SBISA
back down to the campus homes. Nobody had
a car in those days. We would all walk together,
have our refreshments, and go back to the
dance. Occassionally, someone would have a
drink but they were frowned upon and they
weren't considered to be good students. They
weren't considered to be the ones you went
with.
In my day, the girls were dressed in short
dresses. At least, they were short in front and
longer in back, but they were just beautiful. Oh,
the dresses were just lovely. The girls would
come from all over the state for these dances
and they just dressed beautifully. They dressed
up then, you know. The little girls nowadays
don't go in for that like they used to do. It was
very exciting.
1 recall a rather ususual experience that I had
when I brought home four girls for one of the
RV dances. The house was crowded with folks
staying with us and we had all of our new
evening clothes hanging everywhere. When I
got ready to go back to college !couldn't find
my clothes. We searched and searched to no
avail. We had a lot of extra help in the house so
we just decided, well-those gowns just weren't
there. •They were gone. Finally, somebody
thought to ask my little brother who was about
five or six at the time. 'Oh,' he exclaimed, 'Yes,
nobody asked me where they were. Billy and 1
were playing with them out on the roof and they
are still there!' They'd been on the roof all night.
It was very upsetting, but thank goodness, it
hadn't rained. The dresses were all right even
though they had been on the roof all night.
Passersby must have thought some interesting
things If they noticed the dresses spread about
on the roof. That would be the roof of the old
house across from South Knoll Elementary.
Every time I pass that house I'll envision those
beautiful party dresses lying upon the roof."
FRANK CLEVELAND BOLTON, JR.
AND
KATHRYN EWING BOLTON
I~
1935
I
RATARYN EWING BOLTON
~1
THE FAMILY
OF
FRANK C. BOLTON, JR.
AND
KATHRYN EWING BOLTON
Frank Cleveland Bolton Jr. graduated from Texas A&M in
1934'and II of Texas law school in 1937 and was admitted
to practice in Texas in 1937. Married for forty-nine
years to Kathryn Ewing until her death in 1984. From 1937
until 1950 the family lived in Longview, TX. where Frank
practiced law. From mid 1943 until 1945 Frank was an
officer in the IIS Navy, serving in the Pacific Theater in
communications aboard the IISS Bougainville. Returning to
Longview after the war Frank practiced law until in June
of 1950 he joined the legal department of Magnolia
Petroleum Company (later merged into Mobil Oil
Corporation) in Houston.
In 1951 the family moved to Dallas and in 1959 to New
York. There he held various positions with Mobil both
within and without the Office of General Counsel. College
and marriages had reduced the family size to Lura and
parents by the time of the move to New York.
Between 1965 and 1970 they returned to Houston where he
was Vice-president for natural gas. From 1970 until he
retired in 1974 he was again in New York as General
Counsel North American Division. At retirement he and
Kathryn returned to Houston. In Houston he practiced
law, did consulting work and testified as an expert in
gas cases.
Kathryn died in September 1984 of cancer.
On February 8,1985 he married Jo Ann Ethridge IInger, a
widow with three daughters: Kimberly Kathleen IInger;
Alison Leigh .Hayward; Melissa Christine Greer.
Frank and Jo Ann live in Houston. Their expanded family,
now consisting of six children nine grandchildren and
two great
grandchildren live in TX, CO,AZ,FL.VA, and MA.
THE CHILDREN
OF
FRANK C. BOLTON, jR.
AND
KATHRYN SWING BOLTON
1. Kathryn 'Virginia' tailless, b.12-16-37 married to
James A.Willess,Jr. They divorced in 1973. They had three
children - Jennifer Ann, b.ll/27/63, Brian Andrew, b.
2/19/65, and Susan Bolton, b. 11\14\69. They lived in
College 'Station and Shallowater, in Texas, and in
Fayetteville, N.C., and Fairfax, VA.
In 1979 Virginia received a masters degree in social work
at the IIniversity of Texas at Austin. She and the
children moved to Reston Va. , where she began a career in
counseling. Her special interest is gerontology.
Jennifer was married to Robert Michael Valentine. They
had two chilcren, Audreya Virginia, b. 5/29/81 and Isaiah
Michael, b. 6/2/83. Jennifer and the children live in
Reston, VA.
Brian married Cara Suzanne Snellings 9\14\91. They live
in Tempe, Arizona, where Brian is a college student
majoring in computer science and working as a master
electrician.
Susan is an honors graduate of Marymount IIniversity with
a degree in finance. She lives and works in San Diego,
California.
2. Frank C. Bolton, III, b.12-5-41, holds degrees in
theology, urban planning and law and is practicing law
and teaching in Denver, CO. He is married to Pamela
Schaefer the mother of Robin and Michelle by her previous
marriage. Elisa Bolton, a graduate of Brandeis
IIniversity, now lives in Boston, MA. and James M. Bolton
of Boulder,CO are children of the marriage of Frank and
Zorena Segal Bolton.
3. Lura Bennett Bolton, b. 12-06-46 graduated from Emory
IIniversity in education, and taught in the public schools
there for one and one-half years. She married Dr.W.
Robert Mathews, DDS on March 3, 1969 of Bradenton, FL..
Robert Mathews received his degrees at Emory IIniversity.
Immediately following marriage, and while Robert served
in the Air Force, the couple lived in Sherman, Texas
until Robert was sent to Thailand during the Vietnam war.
Whi le Robert was away Luca taught and 1 ived in Bradenton .
IIpon leaving the Air Force, Robert established his dental
practice in Bradenton where they are active in their
Church and other Christian activities. Their daughters
Kathryn b. 2-23-73 and Marianne b.12-19-74 were honors
graduates at Bradenton Christian School and are currently
on honors scholarships at Belmont College in Nashville
where their interests and talents lie in Christian music,
education, counseling and service.
FA.tilILy' OF b'1RGI'~11A BOLTON WILLESS
„j,
Jennifer Valentine Suzane Willess Susan Willess Brian Willess
Isiah Valentine Audreya Valentine Virginia Bolton Willess
1
FRANK C. BOLTON III
AND
PAMELA SCHAEFER BOLTON
CHII.DREN OF FRANK C. BOLTON IlI
AND
ZORENA SEGAL BOLTON
-~
T
I
James Bolton
L:lis~i Bolton
Robert
Mathews
8c
L.ura
E3olton
Mathcrrs
1
FAMILY OF Li_JRA AND BOB M,e,THEWS
Marianne and Rathie Hathevs
^
FRANK CLEVELAND BOLTON, JR.
AND
JO ANN BTHRIDGE UNGffit BOLTON
At wedding February 8, 1985
'-'-
Jo Ann Ethridge the third child born to William
Clifton Ethridge and Pauline Dobson was born in
Conroe, Texas on 1 Nov. 1937. She marred Miles
Unger at Holy Name Catholic Church in Houston
on Nov. 18, 1956. Miles Unger died on 30 June
1978
Chidren born to Jo An and Miles Unger are:
Kimberly Kathleen -born 30 Oct. 195$
Alison Leigh -born 27 Dec. 1960
Melissa Christine born 5 Dec. 196 i
Kimberly earned a degree in Respiratory Therapy
from Southwest Texas State University and a BS
degree in Psychology from the University of
Houston. Since receiving her degree in Respiratory
Therapy she has worked in Spring Branch Hospital
for fourteen years.
Alison received her degree in Chemistry from
Southwest Texas State University and is currently
employed by Miles Laboratories.
Melissa received a Masters Degree in Elementary
Education at Sam Houston State University. In
May, 1986 she married Jeffrey Brian Greer , a
native of New Zealand in Huntsville, Texas. They
lived in Ackland, New Zealand the first three years
of their marriage. Today they live iu The
Woodlands, Texas with their son Sean Mitchell
Greer, born 24 Aug. 1988, and daughter, Morgan
Elizabeth, born 30 July, 1990.
ALISON LEIGH UNGER HAYiaTARD RIM UNGER
Jeff, Melissa, Morgan and Sean Greer