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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
as men go to California, mainly after money. The siege of Lawrence, and the sight of a free-State man wantonly murdered in this exciting period, caused Mr. Lib. 26.2. Stearns formally to renounce his non-resistance views, and to shoulder his Sharp's rifle against wild beasts (not men). Mr. Garrison still held to the faith. He presided on March 24, 25, at a New England Non-Resistance Convention held Lib. 25.50, 60. in Worcester, By way of record, let us state here that the New England roperty like any other (Lib. 25: 167). In Kansas, the liberty of white men is struck down, and held at the point of the bayonet, and here in Massachusetts we sympathize —in the abstract! But when a brave man comes here to raise money to arm with Sharp's rifles his company of a hundred Kansas farmers, does he find a material aid at all commensurate with his expectations? Doubtless the agent referred to was Major James B. Abbott. See Sanborn's Life of John Brown, p. 212. Alas, no! I have a
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 16: Fremont.—1856. (search)
rth to the pitch of resistance symbolized by the vote for Fremont. It carried the clergy off their feet, and opened their churches to meetings for the donation of Sharp's rifles for Kansas—Henry Ward Lib. 26.51. Beecher and Theodore Parker being conspicuous in the Lib. 26.51, 54. promotion of this object, and both incurring Mr. e Kansas a slave State. Hence the appeal, in selfdefence, to the people of the free States for men, money, and arms; hence the justification for the employment of Sharp's rifles against the border ruffians. It is said to be a struggle for liberty; and earnest appeals are made to the hearts and the pockets of all who desire to see are not the crushed and bleeding slaves at the South a million times more deserving of pity and succor? Why not, first of all, take measures to furnish them with Sharp's rifles? Their wrongs are beyond description; in comparison with which, those of the people of Kansas are utterly insignificant. Why strain at a gnat, and swall