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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 94th Psalm was read at the opening of the meeting by the Rev. Samuel May, Jr. The following letter was also read by Mr. Quincy: W. L. Garrison to Edmund Quincy. Boston, Jan. 24, 1861. Ms. and Lib. 31.17. My dear coadjutor: . . . I amEdmund Quincy. Boston, Jan. 24, 1861. Ms. and Lib. 31.17. My dear coadjutor: . . . I am still not sufficiently strong to justify me, as a matter of common prudence, in being present at our annual State gathering to-day. The spirit is willing, and restless for liberation, but the flesh is weak. I believe this will be the first of theeting! Convicted of falsehood in this humiliating manner, before his fellow-citizens, the Chief Magistrate turned to Edmund Quincy, who was in the chair, and abjectly asked his commands. Clear the galleries, said Mr. Quincy, and it was done. GiveMr. Quincy, and it was done. Give us fifty policemen this evening to protect the meeting, he continued. You shall have them, responded the Mayor, who, returning to the City Hall, straightway wrote an order to close the hall and prevent any meeting being held there Lib. 31.18. that
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 3: the Proclamation.—1863. (search)
o this side of the water, and to the American Anti-Slavery Society: W. L. Garrison to his wife. New York, May 14, 1863. Ms. Our anti-slavery company was never so small before, with reference to Anniversary week. It consisted of Edmund Quincy, May 11. John T. Sargent, and myself—Phillips having preceded us in the night train, in order to be fresh for his Cooper Institute speech Monday evening. At Worcester, Mr. May and his S. May, Jr. mother joined us, and these were all the rec day's sessions after the great audience had listened to Mr. Garrison's welcoming address, to letters from absent friends, and to the reading, by Dr. William H. Furness, of the Declaration of Sentiments. The absence of Wendell Phillips and Edmund Quincy was greatly regretted. Others unable to attend, who sent letters which were read or printed, were John G. Whittier, David Thurston, Simeon S. Jocelyn, and Joshua Coffin, of the Signers of the Declaration; Arthur Tappan, Samuel Fessenden, Joh
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 5: the Jubilee.—1865. (search)
erations. At the Governor's suggestion and request, the church bells were rung throughout the State; and it was while sitting in the quiet Friends' Meeting at Amesbury that Mr. Whittier heard these, and, divining the cause, framed in thought his inspired lines of praise and thanksgiving (Laus Deo!), which Mr. Garrison never wearied of repeating. A Jubilee Meeting was Feb. 4. speedily convened in Music Hall, which was crowded with an enthusiastic audience, and when the chairman (Josiah Quincy, Jr.) introduced Mr. Garrison as the first speaker of the evening, the latter received such an ovation that he was unable to proceed for several minutes. His speech was naturally exultant, anticipating the future greatness and prosperity of the country, and its influence upon other nations, and (by way of impressing upon his hearers the full significance of this latest triumph) rehearsing the pro-slavery clauses of the Constitution which were now abrogated by the Amendment. We quote his word
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 6: end of the Liberator.—1865. (search)
iment to the retiring members of the Executive Committee, only one of whom was renominated. Edmund Quincy, Anne Warren Weston, Sydney Howard Gay, Samuel May, Jr., and Henry C. Wright, all shared Mr.Society. A resolution of thanks to the retiring editors of the Standard (Oliver Johnson and Edmund Quincy), with especial commendation of their conduct of the paper during the war, was introduced by which the subjects of it refused to accept and returned with trenchant letters (Lib. 35: 98). Mr. Quincy could not resist the opportunity to poke a little fun at the Society and its Executive Committn which his conduct during the previous year had secured him. He absented himself (as did Edmund Quincy and Samuel May, Jr.) from the sessions of the New England Convention in Boston, and delivereles K. Whipple kindly assumed much of the editorial care of the paper. Samuel May, Jr., and Edmund Quincy contributed editorials, the latter giving an admirable review of the Liberator's career, in
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 7: the National Testimonial.—1866. (search)
y discontinuance of the Liberator, and his joyful recognition of the accomplishment of its immediate object. The Euthanasia of the Liberator was celebrated by Edmund Quincy in the N. Y. Independent of Jan. 11, 1866. Notable articles on the career of the paper and its editor also appeared in the London Daily News of Jan. 9 (by Har the January meeting, by a majority of three to one, not to Jan. 24, 25. disband, after a debate in which the argument in favor of dissolution was sustained by Mr. Quincy, Mr. May, and S. May, Jr. Mr. Garrison, who all withdrew from the organization. The importance of continuing it was urged with much intensity of feeling and lmple, to your country and the world. Your friends, Samuel E. Sewall, J. Ingersoll Bowditch, William E. Coffin, William Endicott, Jr., Samuel May, Jr., Edmund Quincy, Thomas Russell, Robert C. Waterston. W. L. Garrison to the Testimonial Committee. Boston, March 12, 1868. respected friends: In replying to your ve
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 8: to England and the Continent.—1867. (search)
generous, considerate, and, as far as I can see, every way morally excellent. I can perceive that he has large faith, is very credulous, is not deeply read, and has little of the curiosity or thirst for knowledge which educated people are prone to. But, take him for all in all, I know no such other man. His children are most affectionate and free with him—yet they have their own opinions and express them freely, even when they differ most widely from his (Ms. Feb. 5, 1868, R. D. Webb to E. Quincy). People who travel together have an excellent opportunity of knowing and testing one another. . . . I have never on the whole known a man who bears to be more thoroughly known, or is so sure to be loved and reverenced (Ms. Oct. 9, 1867, R. D. Webb to E. P. Nichol). The weather was perfect, the skies cloudless. They had a day of rare delight at a little pension near Castle Sept. 4. Chillon, after their descent of the Tete Noire pass; and at Interlaken they tarried more than a week, mak
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 9: Journalist at large.—1868-1876. (search)
and in this he was sustained by two of his co-Trustees, Edmund Quincy and Samuel May. Mr. Phillips, on the other hand, advocaoved by the Court, who directed Messrs. Garrison, May, and Quincy to nominate four persons in their place, and the money finSee Mr. Garrison's reply on p. 424 of A. Tappan's Life. Edmund Quincy received his laurel wreath with characteristic lightness and jest. Edmund Quincy to W. L. Garrison. Dedham, Aug. 26, 1875. Ms. I am much obliged to you for your apprecias President. In this capacity he expressed the hope that Quincy would freely visit the Anti-Slavery Office. as of old, be I am always, my dear Garrison, affectionately yours, Edmund Quincy. In March, 1873, Mr. Garrison was earnestly besoug addressed to him by many of his old associates. Edmund Quincy and others to W. L. Garrison. March 10, 1873. dear e signatures to this letter included the familiar names of Quincy, Sewall, Chapman, Weston, Whittier, Mott, McKim, May, Smit
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 10: death of Mrs. Garrison.—final visit to England.—1876, 1877. (search)
possible. He was doubly afflicted, on the eve of his departure, by the death of a beloved May 11, 1877. daughter-in-law, who was to have accompanied him on Lucy McKim Garrison. his voyage, and, a few days later, by that of his dear friend, Edmund Quincy, whose funeral he was unable to May 17. attend, being already in New York and about to embark when the news reached him. His companion, as on his previous visit to England, was his youngest son. Leaving New York on the 23d of May, F. J. the evening of the 24th of August, and on the following day Mr. Garrison and his son began their homeward voyage in the Bothnia, landing in New York ten days later. The tedium of the days at sea was beguiled not a little by the perusal of Edmund Quincy's letters of many years to Richard D. Webb, which the latter's son had entrusted to Mr. Garrison, and from which we have extracted somewhat freely in the third volume of this biography. Sept. 4, 1877. Now that our transatlantic tour has
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 12: Inner traits. (search)
l writing, that could doubtless be claimed for it which Edmund Quincy once asserted of his own journalistic total—that it wa 39. Some disinterested testimony is here admissible. Quincy, humorously describing in the N. Y. Tribune the abolition pole Ante, 3.178. of the benignity residing in his face. Quincy has just called it, phrenologically speaking, a full one;prescription. He is quite ignorant of physiology, wrote Quincy to Webb Ms. Jan. 13. in 1853, and has no belief in hygien 3.381. helped to make him the good presiding officer that Quincy —the best of judges—pronounced him. His humor was, Ante, t in those choice gatherings where Thompson, Phillips, and Quincy vied with each other. There was, however, a limitation toat he deems a serious subject, he won't bear a jest, wrote Quincy to Webb in 1843. Ms. Nov. 27. Mrs. Stowe has borne wire restricted, and of very different degrees of intimacy. Quincy, who proclaimed my father's Lib. 20.152; cf. ante, p. 256<