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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 8: the Liberator—1831. (search)
mplish the great work of national redemption through the agency of moral power—of public opinion—of individual duty. How have we been received? We have been threatened, proscribed, vilified and imprisoned—a laughing-stock and a reproach. . . . immediate emancipation! . . . In December the prison confessions of Nat Turner were printed in Baltimore in an edition of fifty thousand copies, whereupon Mr. Garrison advises the Grand Lib. 1.202. Juries in the several slave States to indict Mr. Gray [the recipient of the confessions] and the printers of the pamphlet forthwith; and the legislative bodies to offer a large reward for their apprehension. He also points out that it does not appear that Turner, who could both read and write, ever saw a copy of the infernal Liberator or of Walker's pamphlet. A great marvel remained to be noticed: a Quaker petition, praying for Lib. 1.207. some attention to the evils of slavery, was received and respectfully referred in the Virginia Leg<
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
sapping the foundations of the confederacy; that without a plan, we are hastening the abolition of slavery; and that without reason or talent, we are rapidly converting the nation! But, the success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. Slavery will be overthrown before a majority of all the people shall have called voluntarily, and on the score of principle, for its abolition—a striking prophecy, fulfilled to the very letter. Mr. Garrison's first letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Lib. 5.142. Otis was in a different tone, being tempered by a still lingering respect and personal attachment: In proceeding to review your speech, I am filled with Lib. 5.142. sorrowful emotions. I remember how intimately associated is the name of Otis with the revolutionary struggle that emancipated this nation from the thraldom of the mother country. You have dishonored that name—you have cast a stain of blood upon your reputation. You have presumed to lift up your