Abolitionist Galusha Anderson
Abolition, Blog November 16th. 2009, 11:27amAbolition History
Today I present to you another individual involved in the struggle to end slavery in the United States.
Galusha Anderson
Galusha Anderson
Born: March 7, 1832
Deceased: July 20, 1918
Religious Affiliation: Baptist
City/Region: Janesville, Wisconsin / St. Louis, Missouri
Galusha Anderson was an evangelistic Baptist minister, abolitionist and outspoken leader of the Union cause in the state of Missouri. Mr. Anderson was involved in a great number of activities before, during and after the Civil War that included taking care of the body and souls of wounded soldiers, both northern and southern.
Additional Offices of Distinction
- President, University of Chicago
- President, Denison University
Writings:
The story of a border city during the Civil War
Quotes:
“There are those here who have assumed the task of dictating what this pulpit shall say. They belong to a class of men who suppose that when a man becomes a minister, he ceases to be a man, to be a citizen, to have an opinion, that he gives his conscience and judgment up to the pew holders, that he speaks, like the puppet on the stage, when some one in the pews pulls the wires. I do not belong to that class of ministers. When I became a Christian minister, I was not conscious of laying aside my manhood. Permit me to say to all such dictators that I shall not bow down to them nor serve them.”
“You may differ with me in judgment upon this question, you have your opinions and the right freely to express them and 1 shall have mine. There is no sufficient reason for this rebellion and revolution. It is the most wicked and condemnable of any recorded in the history of nations. The anarchy, conflict and bloodshed, which it has brought upon us, must rest on the heads of those who, without just cause, have inaugurated and carried it forward.”
