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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 13: the Bible Convention.—1853. (search)
b. 23:[84]; Hist. Woman Suffrage, 1.499. consenting at first to admit certificated delegates from the Women's State Temperance Society, was convulsed by a motion to place one of them on the business committee. A hearing was refused to the women themselves, and they were finally excluded, as not contemplated in the call. A secession accordingly took place, led by the Rev. T. W. Higginson of Worcester, Mass. A fall meeting having been arranged for the same misnamed Convention, on September 6, 7, a counter Whole World's Temperance Convention was projected for September 1, 2, and Mr. Garrison was naturally among the signers of Lib. 23.115. the latter call. He took a very subordinate part in the Ms. Sept. 5, 1853, W. L. G. to H. E. G.; Lib. 23.146. proceedings, in which the women were of right conspicuous. Few of the clergy were visible, and no dignitaries. On the next evening (Saturday), he witnessed the Sept. 3. performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin at the National Theatre. On Sund
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
en America, the land of his love. The last time I saw him, he spoke of you and your family, and playfully he has expressed himself sometimes in speaking of the continued hospitalities almost heaped upon him. As for Garrison, he would, if he had had his own way, have killed me with kindness, but Mrs. Garrison, with her Cf. Ms. Sept. 20, 1853, W. H. Ashurst, Jr., to W. L. G. kindness, would have brought me to life again. Mr. Ashurst landed in America in July, 1853, and sailed for home on Sept. 7, in a very feeble state (Lib. 23: 118; Ms. Sept. 5, 1853, W. L. G. to his wife). An amusing adventure of his while in Boston is worth recording. Having occasion to inquire his way, he excused himself by explaining that he was an Englishman. An Englishman, eh? was the response. Well, we licked you in ‘76! H. C. Wright, he said, had nursed and attended and cheered him as a woman would have done; and repeatedly he has said how gratified he should be to return in any way to your friends som