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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 1: no union with non-slaveholders!—1861. (search)
the cause and cure of the war, the relation of Lib. 31.70, 74. the anti-slavery cause to the war, the offer of General Benjamin F. Butler to suppress slave insurrections (if Lib. 31.78, 82. any should occur) in Maryland, the bewilderment of mind ofe years before, and the North was Ante, 2.75; Lib. 31.74, 90. warned that peace without freedom would be no peace. Gen. Butler's gratuitous offer to use his Massachusetts troops in putting down any slave insurrection was still eliciting the indier, do not also shout, Down with Slavery! I am not discouraged because kidnapping has been permitted in Chicago, and General Butler has played so infamous a part in Maryland, and slaves have been driven from Fort Pickens, and even Greeley has talkedthem from their deadliest curse—that is Christian. In August, the Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, in a letter to General Butler, cited the Act of Congress Lib. 31.131. approved on the 6th of that month, by which slaves Wilson's Anti-Slavery Me
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 4: the reelection of Lincoln.—1864. (search)
on The Presidency, which attracted wide attention. Declaring the approaching election to be a matter of the gravest consideration in its relation to the stability of the Government, the suppression of the rebellion, and the abolition of slavery, he deemed it none too early to discuss who should be the Republican candidate, in view of the various schemes that were already on foot to prevent Mr. Lincoln's re-nomination, and to push S. P. Chase. Chase, Butler, or Fremont for the position. B. F. Butler. J. C. Fremont. Standing, as we have stood for more than thirty years, outside of every party organization,—yet taking the deepest interest in every political struggle of national concernment as indicative of progress or retrogression,—we occupy a position not only absolutely independent of all party ties and obligations, but sufficiently elevated and disinterested to make our judgment impartial, if not conclusive to others. The crisis is too solemn to justify heat or dogmatism, or
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 11: last years.—1877-79. (search)
had reference to a financial tract which the latter had written, and to his strange support of General Butler as a Benj. F. Butler. candidate for the gubernatorial chair of Massachusetts. W. L. Garrison to Wendell Phillips. Roxbury, Oct. rsistently insisted [on] as constituting) the paramount issue before the country. I cannot endorse your estimate of Gen. Butler. Indeed, your praise of him is so lavish as to surprise me. He was re-elected with a virtual understanding and expectSouth Carolina whites in the campaign of 1876 followed. The two Senators from South Carolina, at Washington, Hampton and Butler, wrote Mr. Garrison in his letter on the Exodus (April 22, 1879), are occupying seats to which they were not honestly ele, instead of presenting their brazen visages in the Capitol, Hampton would be in the penitentiary, and Hamburg massacre Butler be lying in a grave of infamy, according as crimes are adjudged and punished in a civilized community (Boston Traveller,