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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 4: no union with slaveholders!—1844. (search)
ovide for the punishment of persons disturbing the peace of this State, in relation to slaves and free persons of color (Lib. 15: 14; 18: 65), and a similar one by Louisiana (Lib. 15: 17, 25). But slavery has n't left her pluck enough for that, I fancy—the melancholy truth. Other Massachusetts citizens were equally in need and equally devoid of protection at this moment. There was Lib. 14.147. honest Jonathan Walker of Harwich, sea-captain, caught in July, 1844, by the U. S. steamer General Taylor, with Lib. 14.127, 129, 144, 147, 195; 17.158. sundry slaves aboard as voluntary passengers from the Federal Territory of Florida to the Bahama Islands; taken back in irons to Pensacola and there jailed, chained to a ringbolt for fifteen days; afterwards put in the pillory for an hour, and pelted with rotten eggs; finally, by order of a Federal court, branded on the right hand with S. S. Lib. 15.115, 132. for slave-stealer—lucky to escape at length with his life. There was also the Re
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 6: third mission to England.—1846. (search)
f swift eyes. Mrs. Chapman's eyes are not sweet, but swift expresses exactly their rapid, comprehensive glance.’ The author of the Biglow Papers had already begun that inimitable satire of the national crime against Mexico, marked, so far, by Taylor's military successes at Lib. 16.82, 167. Matamoras and Monterey. The demoralization which war immediately produces as a mere status, was lamentably shown by the compliance of the Whig governors Briggs Geo. N. Briggs, Wm. Slade. and Slade (of Mealers— no Union with slaveholders! We might end here, if it were not instructive to remark on Liberty Party endorsement of the Mexican War, even Lib. 16.115; 17.14. Gamaliel Bailey, in his Philanthropist, praying for the safety of the noble Taylor and his brave army. There were other proofs that the party was in a bad way. In the spring of 1846 one of its thirty organs affirmed that its present position is inaction—a perfect standstill. Lib. 16.57. Almost at a dead stand was William Good<
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 8: the Anti-Sabbath Convention.—1848. (search)
fection from the Taylor and Cass ranks, in this section of the Zachary Taylor. State, appears to be considerable, and is every day increasingdelphia on June 7, when the popular hero of the Mexican War, Gen. Zachary Taylor, a Louisiana slaveholder, was nominated for President, in diWhig Party, our reply has been, unhesitatingly and emphatically—Zachary Taylor. Press nominations of Taylor began as far back as the date indTaylor began as far back as the date indicated (Lib. 17: 61). Before the Buffalo Convention assembled, Mr. Garrison betook himself to the water-cure, and it fell to Quincy to cous in the premises, and refusing to support either Lewis Cass or Zachary Taylor. He had at once received the nomination of the Barnburners' Cono side. Party Lib. 18.150. affiliations kept him from supporting Taylor, and for Cass he lacked the philosophy of Douglas, who advised the et the man, and they [of the North] the measure. The election of Taylor—a necessary choice of evils— had its chief significance for the abo<
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 9: Father Mathew.—1849. (search)
erest and importance. In July, the Rev. Theobald Mathew, of world-wide fame as The Apostle of Temperance, landed in New York, ostensibly in the prosecution of his mission, but also not Lib. 19.111. without hope of bettering his pecuniary condition beyond the paltry pension he received from England. Being Lib. 19.194. an Irish Catholic, the importance of making political capital out of him, especially by the Whigs, who had no Lib. 19.145. hold on the Irish vote, was not overlooked. President Taylor invited him to be his guest at the White House, Lib. 19.115. and everywhere official receptions were tendered him of the most flattering character. Having administered the pledge of total abstinence to some twenty thousand persons in New York and Brooklyn, he first journeyed eastward, and arrived in Boston on July 24. A barouche Lib. 19.119. and four horses and a municipal committee awaited him at the city line. The temperance societies took charge of him, he was welcomed by Gover
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 10: the Rynders Mob.—1850. (search)
ent a Texan invasion of New Mexico, which President Taylor would resist with Federal troops, even th here seemed to run through the assembly.) Zachary Taylor sits there, which is the same thing, for hans hell. Alluding to a famous order of General Taylor's during the Mexican War. (Sensation, uproar, and confusion.) The name of Zachary Taylor had scarcely passed Mr. S. May, Jr., in Boston C he had simply quoted some recent words of General Taylor, and appealed to the audience if he had sa and the growing excitement at the North, President Taylor died, on the 9th of July, 1850. Lib. 20.s. July 11, 1850. to say anything against President Taylor, wrote Samuel May, Jr., to Mr. Garrison, So far as his short administration went, President Taylor had exhibited remarkable independence of a calamity. It is incredible, however, that Taylor would not have signed the Fugitive Slave Bill.ision when, in 1848, on giving his adhesion to Taylor's nomination, he said: And if any accident sho
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 20: Abraham Lincoln.—1860. (search)
Baltimore and nominated Stephen A. Douglas for President. A secession followed, and a rump convention nominated John C. June 28. Breckinridge of Kentucky as the regular Democratic candidate. The triumph of the Republican Party was now a foregone conclusion, and all eyes were turned in scrutiny upon Lincoln. To the country at large he was an obscure, not to say an unknown man. His visit to New England in the fall of 1848, when, during the Congressional recess, he took the stump for Zachary Taylor, had made no impression. At Worcester, Mass., on Sept. 13, 1848, he repeated Mr. Webster's remark, that the nomination of Van Buren by a professedly anti-slavery party was either a trick or a joke; and declared, on his own account, that, of the three parties then asking the confidence of the country, the new one had less of principle than any other, adding, amid shouts of laughter, that the recently constructed, elastic Free-Soil platform reminded him of nothing so much as the pair of
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
-slavery tone of that journal, especially in its Washington correspondence, Boston Whig, Jan. 5 and 19, 1817; The Next Presidency, insisting on a candidate of well-defined antislavery position, Courier, Jan. 22, 1847; D. P. King's speech in Congress, Whig, March 16, 1847; Rev. George Putnam's sermon on the Mexican War, a criticism on the sermon which brought about a correspondence between the preacher and the critic, ending however in a good understanding, Courier, May 8, 1847: Thanks to General Taylor, denying the propriety of such a testimony to victories obtained in an unjust war, Courier, April 17, 1847; The Position of Massachusetts, viewed in the light of the division in the Whig party on the slavery question, and the importance of union against the Mexican War and against slavery, Courier, May 13, 1847; The Fourth of July, suggesting the antagonism between the Declaration of American Independence and American Slavery, Courier, July 3, 1847; Rev. R. C. Waterston's sermon on The t
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
o the Nueces and stationed our fleet in the Gulf, directed General Taylor, Jan. 13, 1846, to move the army to the left bank of the Rio Grande William Jay's Review, pp. 140,141. The President, on receiving Taylor's report of the skirmish (for that was all it was), communicated hi the time required for their transportation to the seat of war. General Taylor did not ask for or need them for defence and succor, and he evelavery State. To George Sumner:— April 30. The victories of Taylor promise to overthrow all political speculations. He has fastened hries, because untimely, in his opinion; giving his adhesion to President Taylor's policy of non-interference; Feb. 21 and May 8, 1850. Addrhim. He gave the solitary negative to a resolution of thanks to General Taylor for services in the Mexican War. He and Adams were Whigs; but tchusetts. During the whole of 1847 and until the nomination of General Taylor, their correspondence concerned the probable course of parties
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
mination was only nominal, showing leanings to Taylor for President and Lawrence for Vice-President.ition of Cass and the unsatisfactory record of Taylor, citing and commenting upon the latter's numer part of the year Sumner thought that General Taylor could not command the votes of the Northern Whtill strong enough to hold its masses, and General Taylor was elected President. Van Buren receivedh Mr. Lawrence predicted the nomination of General Taylor, and justified it as the only one likely tn promoting it; stated that Mr. Choate was for Taylor, and implied that John Davis and Governor Linc, if nominated, could not be elected, and that Taylor was the only candidate whom the Whigs could eldelphia connecting the names of Washington and Taylor (printed in the Atlas, February 25), saying th several letters, urged him to declare against Taylor's nomination, and to take his place openly witt the result. we shall form the opposition to Taylor's administration, and secure, as we believe, t[36 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 34: the compromise of 1850.—Mr. Webster. (search)
us left to themselves, holding a convention at President Taylor's instance in September, 1849, formed a constin of Fillmore, who became President on the death of Taylor, July 9. The latter had been an obstruction, as h Dr. Bailey wrote Sumner, July 5, 1850, that General Taylor had been growing more and more Northern in sentto a compromise. Horace Mann took the same view of Taylor. （Mann's Life, pp. 305, 307, 322.) But in the end p. 341, 350. He put himself in antagonism with President Taylor's plan of admitting California as a State indeis edition of Webster's Works. On the death of President Taylor, he did not conceal from his friends his satisol. II. pp. 376, 377, 386, 387, 395. And if he [General Taylor] had lived, it might have been doubtful whetherent would have been made. He wrote, two days after Taylor's death, There is no doubt that recent events have writers suggest that a disposition to obstruct President Taylor had something to do with the course of Clay as
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