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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 2: the Background (search)
of caution was that the South disciplined Northern merchants by a withdrawal of business; and the South kept its eyes open. A rumor that Garrison had been seen in a particular pew might make the pewowner a marked man for commercial punishment. Mr. May, said a New York merchant of the first rank to the reformer, whom he summoned to an interview during the progress of an Anti-slavery meeting, Mr. May, we are not such fools as not to know that slavery is a great evil; a great wrong. But it was Mr. May, we are not such fools as not to know that slavery is a great evil; a great wrong. But it was consented to by the founders of our Republic. It was provided for in the Constitution of our Union. A great portion of the property of the Southerners is invested under its sanction; and the business of the North, as well as the South, has become adjusted to it. There are millions upon millions of dollars due from Southerners to the merchants and mechanics of this city alone, the payment of which would be jeopardized by any rupture between the North and the South. We cannot afford, sir, to l
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
inion on that point. . . . Garrison is insane, and Thompson has embarked for England. These are the current stories now. We have received no intelligence from Mr. May. It came presently. He was mobbed at Montpelier, Vt., on the two days following the Boston mob, while addressing the Vermont State Anti-Slavery Society in the with her. President Boston Fem. (where I am to remain), and were just in season to take tea. A. S. Soc. It was quite refreshing to see familiar faces once more. Mr. and Mrs. May sat at my right hand, propounding many questions about the Brooklynites, to which I responded as rapidly as possible. As soon as I had finished my supMrs. May sat at my right hand, propounding many questions about the Brooklynites, to which I responded as rapidly as possible. As soon as I had finished my supper, I came down to the office, and having first chatted a little with brother Henry and friend Knapp, then read the last Liberator, I have Dec. 26, 1835. now seized my pen to write to one who is dearer to me than any other earthly object. . . . Brother Phelps has been mobbed in Farmington. A large Conn. brickbat was thrown
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 2: Germs of contention among brethren.—1836. (search)
g obstructed by the ice. Arrived safely at 3 o'clock P. M. Mr. May was delighted to find his wife and his little one in prospe the Legislative Committee. It was finally arranged that Mr. May should open the defence by stating the prominent facts res was not the less happy to have shaken hands with him. Mr. May began the defence, and spoke pretty [well?] for May's Recould possibly give, be it more or less. Sabbath forenoon, Mr. May, Henry and myself went March 6. to hear Dr. Channing prea being Miss Martineau, Miss Jeffery, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Mr. May, Messrs. Rantoul and Hillard, of the Legislature, Robeome and tarried with the Chapmans. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. May, Mr. Goodell and myself Sunday, March 6, 1836. attended that account. My Sonnets seem to be universally admired. Mr. May said that Mr. Alcott wept as he read them, with excess of s finally unanimous. A week later, Mr. Garrison writes to Mr. May, from Brooklyn: Now that my sabbatical, as well as som
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
nt support. Elected in July, 1835, Secretary and General Agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, he proved the most valuable business man who had ever filled that post. The adjoining room witnessed his incessant toil, said Lib. 7.26. Mr. May, at the first meeting of the Society after its loss; January 27, 1837. there he labored with an assiduity which spared not himself—and there, I hesitate not to say, he sacrificed his life. We saw his health failing—we remonstrated— but he saw rge the paper. This enlargement was made with the tenth number (March 4, 1837). The size of the printed page now became about 16 x 23 inches. By midsummer the subscribers numbered some 3,000 (Ms. June 14, 1837, W. L. G. to G. W. Benson). Mr. May's tribute drove his friend from the room, and Lib. 7.26. called for remarks in modest abnegation on his return. Further— One word as to the Liberator. I have no desire that it Lib. 7.26. should be supported any longer than it is regard
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 4: Pennsylvania Hall.—the non-resistance society.—1838. (search)
f the five committeemen was a Garrisonian abolitionist, but they were not equally agreed in their views of peace. You and brother Wright have startled me, writes Mr. May to his friend Garrison in July, but I Ms. July 22, 1838. am determined to follow wherever truth may guide. I look forward to the Convention with high expectatioonvention which was to commence the next day. Four clergymen and six laymen made up the group; Mr. Ladd was anxiously expected, but did not arrive. Messrs. Wright, May, etc., had not been invited. Mr. Beckwith, Rev. George C. Beckwith, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Peace Society. Another member, Joshua P. es. Mr. Beckwith said he would withdraw in that case, and, the question being put, all but two voted for withdrawal. In the forenoon of Tuesday, September 18, Mr. May Lib. 8.154. called to order a convention whose rolls showed an attendance of 124 from Massachusetts, 23 from Rhode Island, about a dozen from the other New Engla
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 8: the Chardon-Street Convention.—1840. (search)
ian Sabbath, and hereupon the battle was waged; Mr. Garrison being foremost in taking the negative side (on the ground that the institution of the Sabbath had been abrogated by the coming of Christ), Doubtless we have an indication of his line of argument—Scriptural wholly—in his contemporaneous review of the Rev. Charles Simmons's Scripture Manual, apropos of the question, Are mankind required to keep the Sabbath holy? （Lib. 10: 195). and having A. A. Phelps for his chief antagonist. Mr. May, too, felt obliged to oppose him, and, Lib. 10.206. when it was voted to adjourn the Convention to the last Lib. 11.58, 179. Tuesday in March, 1841, thought that another such meeting would do no good, and strove to have the vote Lib. 10.194. reconsidered. The adjournment to a day fixed, however, was reaffirmed, and there was unanimous acceptance of Mr. Garrison's proposal to take up, as the next subject, the Ministry. Edmund Quincy thus sketches, for the information of Ms. Dec. 31,<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)
295. Lowell, John, 5. Lowell, Maria (White), 67, 75, 76, 77, 101. Lynch, John, 235, 236. Lyttelton, Lord, 289. Macaulay, T. B., 170. Macbeth, 265. Mackay, Mr., 202. Mackintosh, Sir, James, 272. Malot, Hector, 313. Man of Ross, The, 5. Mangual, Pedro, 22. Mann, Horace, 142. Marcou M., 321. Marshall, John, 15. Martin, John, 210. Martineau, Harriet, 126. Mary, Queen, 35. Mason, Charles, 54. Maternus, a Roman poet, 361. Mather, Cotton, 4. Mather, Increase, 53. May, S. J., 327. May, Samuel 146, 147. Meikeljohn, J. M. D., 015. Melusina, 42. Mercutio, in Romeo and Juliet, quoted, 263. Mill, J. S., 101, 121, 122. Millais, J. E. t 332. Miller, Joaquin, 289. Mills, Harriet, 19. Minot, Francis, 62. Montaigne, Michael de, 181. Montgomery, James, 143, 207, 208, 215, 231, 232, 233, 234, 246. Moore, Miles, 213, 214. Moore, Thomas, 304. Morris, William, 289. Morse, Jedediah, 6. Morse, Royal, 700. Motley, J. L., 53, 74, 169. Mott, Lucretia, 32
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)
ocating colonization on the curious ground that The blacks are justly entitled to the whole Southern territory; and how shall we liquidate their claim? By sending them to Africa—unquestionably, as Mr. Garrison remarked, a New Way to pay Old Debts. Even his warm and admiring friend S. J. May took alarm at the Liberator's tone towards a movement which seemed at least introductory to more efficient measures, and entreated with him at length, saying: Ms. March 26, 1831, and again, July 18. Mr. May was then and for some time afterwards a member of the Colonization Society. To him wrote Henry E. Benson, Aug. 4, 1831: I should think that he [Mr. Garrison] paid little regard to the seven pages you wrote him in regard to African colonization, by the perusal of three or four of his last numbers; for his opposition grows stronger, he says, the more he reflects upon it. And again, Sept. 2, after a visit to Boston: Mr. Garrison says he shall write you soon, and has no doubt that, as you are
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)
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 treatise, clearly establishing the desperate folly and absurd philosophy of the doctrine of universal salvation. Besides his formal discourses to the free people of color, Mr. Garrison addressed to them, on the eve of their Philadelphia National Convention, an editorial article counsel
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 10: Prudence Crandall.—1833. (search)
g of another town meeting for the 9th instant, at which S. J. May, of the adjacent village of Brooklyn, had promised to be present as Miss Crandall's attorney, Mr. May had first heard of the trouble on Feb. 27 ( Recollections, p. 42). In his autobiographic narrative of the subsequent events he properly figures much more prominenwould be a relief and blessing to society. This scandalous excitement is one of the genuine flowers of the colonization garden. The meeting, refusing to allow Messrs. May and Buffum to be heard on Miss Crandall's behalf, on the ground of their being foreigners and interlopers, voted unanimously Lib. 3.54. their disapprobation dness possible, as everything severe tends merely to heighten the flame of malignity amongst them. Soft words turn away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. Mr. May and many others of your warmhearted friends feel very much on this subject, and it is our opinion that you and the cause will gain many friends in this town and v
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