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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 4: editorial Experiments.—1826-1828. (search)
ets, and during his four years residence there Lundy was a constant witness of the horrors and crueina converts, became his assistant, and to him Lundy could intrust the paper while he made occasionestly opposed to slavery, but at the period of Lundy's visit the temperance question was the more aoodell, Chicago, 1879.) Arrived in Boston, Lundy went to Mr. Collier's boarding-house, where hen, he wrote, a few months later, in describing Lundy, it would at first seem doubtful whetherections of this meeting, and of the failure of Lundy's arguments and appeals to move his hearers: and War, was clearly due to the inspiration of Lundy's visit (so far, at least, as the portion reland thirty,—most of them in slave States and of Lundy's formation, among the Quakers. Allusion was at philanthropists are the slowest Life of Lundy, p. 28. creatures breathing. They think fortyted the progress made before he left Boston to Lundy, who wrote in reply: I am now strengthe[25 more...]
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 5: Bennington and the Journal of the Times—1828-29. (search)
so begins in it his first warfare on slavery. Lundy visits him and engages him as associate editor and cheering to his vision. Meanwhile, Benjamin Lundy at Baltimore was anxiously watching the coment of a press, or strength to hold a pen. Lundy was soon convinced by the frequency and fervorns before Mr. Garrison. The precise date of Lundy's visit to Bennington cannot be determined, nor is it of consequence; but that given in Lundy's Life (November, 1828) is clearly wrong, and the vthy as to dates. So far as can be judged from Lundy's letters in the Journal of the Times, and frosident editor, and conduct the paper while he (Lundy) travelled through the country to obtain subscing the call with all the solemnity with which Lundy urged it upon him, agreed to leave Bennington Mr. Collier's boarding-house to remain awhile, Lundy having meanwhile gone to Hayti with twelve emaprobably going to Newburyport for a brief visit, before his departure for Baltimore to join Lundy. [2 more...]
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 6: the genius of Universal emancipation.—1829-30. (search)
years before. From 1821 to 1825, inclusive, Lundy published the paper monthly, and occasionally fter an interval of eight months (during which Lundy had made his trip to Hayti with the twelve it up by dedicating his life to the cause. Lundy and his partner boarded with two Quaker ladiesand decided poetic talent. Early attracted by Lundy's efforts in behalf of the slaves, she had bec requested to notice the above. L. & G. Lundy was anxious to establish colonies of free coloo be of a milder type than on the plantations, Lundy and Garrison were frequent witnesses of some oo more resemble each other than the persons of Lundy and Garrison—and certainly the antithesis betwarrison afterwards described it, Where Friend Lundy could get one new subscriber, I could knock a necessary at the end of the first half-year. Lundy remarked in one issue that good wishes were sod Virginia slaves were chiefly shipped; and as Lundy's soul had been stirred within him by the sigh[19 more...]
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 7: Baltimore jail, and After.—1830. (search)
y and generosity: Arthur Tappan to Benjamin Lundy. New York, May 29, 1830. Ms. dear sds of the Anti-Slavery Ms. Cause, signed by Lundy and dated Baltimore, June 7, which proposed thto such persons as he may think proper, added Lundy in a postscript, and give any further explanat of my Counsel, and at the desire of my friend Lundy, I visited Boston and Newburyport a few weeks Post-office, and found a letter from my friend Lundy, enclosing a draft for $100, from a stranger—y Lovejoy, for his friendly sympathies. Friend Lundy desires to be affectionately remembered. May ave all the sport to itself, wrote Garrison to Lundy; I give Mr. Todd every advantage (Genius, Nov.slavery cause, and who, as personal friends of Lundy and subscribers to the Genius, were not unfamiev. John Rankin's Letters on slavery, and when Lundy made his second visit to New England, in June,own self-consecration to the cause had been to Lundy, two years previous; while Mr. Sewall's excell[7 more...]
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)
does the Society's name occur in the first number. In the very next, however, in opposition to Lundy, the editor reiterates his belief that the Lib. 1.7. American Colonization Society is wrong id him but his inflated vanity, and the other a sprig of the negro aristocracy of North Carolina (Lundy, Genius, October, 1831). You have (I Lib. 1.165. hope unintentionally) calumniated my charac with material and moral support. Under date of Oct. 18, 1831, he writes from New York (Ms.): Mr. Lundy this morning [read] me an extract from a N. C. paper, stating that the Grand Jury had found a t Albany by John G. Stewart, a colored man, for which he subsequently offers to act as agent. Lundy and Stewart in turn acted as agents for the Liberator (Lib. 1: 73. 145, etc.) Lib. 1.146. To Benjamin Lundy, the veteran advocate of negro emancipation, he dedicates this sonnet: Self-taught, unaided, poor, reviled, Lib. 1.43; Writings of W. L. G., p. 283. contemned- Beset with enemies,
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
cate of Truth. prize tract on The Duties of Ministers and Churches of all Denominations to avoid the Stain of Slavery, etc., but which so abounded in the Rev. George Bourne's The book and slavery Irreconcilable (1815), to which, next after the Bible itself, Mr. Garrison confessed his indebtedness for his views of the institution. Like Rankin, Osborn, and other early emancipationists, Bourne had seen slavery face to face (in Virginia). For tributes to his zeal and courage from Garrison and Lundy, see Lib. 2.35, 43, 133; 3.182. Perhaps no sight was more gratifying to him than that of a minister of the gospel appealing to the Book against African bondage. For this he could overlook theological differences as great as those which separated him from his Unitarian friend Mr. May, and which are measured by Lib. 2.67. his eulogy of a Dissertation on the Subject of Future Punishment, by Oliver Johnson, Editor of the Christian Soldier Lib. 2.40.—a logical, persuasive and solemn trea
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 11: first mission to England.—1833. (search)
e: Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man. Wilberforce was as frail and slender in his figure as is Dr. Channing, and lower in stature than even Benjamin Lundy, the Clarkson of our country. His head hung droopingly upon his breast, so as to require an effort of the body to raise it when he spoke, and his back had an appearance of crookedness: hence, in walking, he looked exceedingly diminutive. Ind is traversing its length and breadth, conquering and to conquer; abolition societies are formed and multiplying, in every free section of our territory, on the principle of immediate and unconditional emancipation; four periodicals That is, Lundy's Genius, the Liberator, the Abolitionist, and the Emancipator. have been established expressly to maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor, and a multitude of our political and religious periodicals are now freely discussing
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 12: American Anti-slavery Society.—1833. (search)
ral benefactors, as well as of the Manual Labor School. He was a forerunner of Abolition, to quote his epitaph—an early and independent opponent of slavery; publishing in 1816 at his own expense a small volume on its horrors, and circulating it in Congress and among State Legislatures. A last word of this strong and benevolent character may fitly close the present chapter: John Kenrick to W. L. Garrison. Newton, Dec. 24, 1832. Ms. dear sir: I perceive you are an agent for Mr. B. Lundy. I have supported that work from the beginning, and believe I have honestly paid up to the present time; but as he expects pay in advance, I send you $1.00 for him. Also, $2.00 for the Liberator for the coming year, and $1.00 for the Abolitionist you are about to publish. You may send me receipt. I hope Mr. Buffum received a line I sent him soon after your Arnold Buffum. address at Watertown. That the Lord may bless, sanctify, and guide you into all truth, and give you an extra
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
s were beguiled by the cunningly devised scheme of the American Colonization Society, Mr. Benson clearly comprehended its spirit and tendency, and wrote a long and an elaborate document in opposition to it even before the Liberator made its appearance. Lundy had been his guest on his lecturing tour in New England in 1828 June 9th. Had a large meeting at Brooklyn, Ct., where I tarried at the house of George Benson, a zealous friend of Emancipation as well as of the Peace Society ( Life of B. Lundy, p. 26). In May, 1833, against his gentle protest, Mr. Benson was chosen President of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Kenrick, and in February, 1834, was unanimously reelected to the same office. His health was now very feeble, but his sympathy with the cause was undiminished, as with that other cause of which Abolition was but a part—the cause of Peace. He was one of the first vice-presidents of the Windham County Larned's Windham