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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)
omestic concerns, instead of sowing the seeds of political discord in the Anti-Slavery Rooms. Many of our first men decided that the meeting should not be held, let the consequences be what they might! On the morning of the day of the meeting, I was waited upon by a committee of two —Messrs. Isaac Stevens, now dead, and Isaac Means (who married old Tobias Lord's daughter), both merchants on Central Wharf Both, also, signers of the call for the Fanueil Hall meeting. Means was in the West India trade.—who requested me to write, print, and cause to be distributed an inflammatory handbill in relation to the meeting--something that would wake up the populace—and they would pay the expense. I complied, most cheerfully, as I considered it, at the moment, as merely a business transaction, and not dreaming that so light a flame would, in a few hours, produce so threatening a conflagration in the breasts of the multitude! I wrote the handbill, as fast as a horse could trot, at the lon<
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)
ator, indeed, for 1836 is one long reverberation of Thompson's triumphant tour through Annual Report Mass. A. S. Soc., 1837, p. 51. England and Scotland, rehearsing in assembly rooms and chapels his American experience, setting forth the aims and character of the abolitionists and the relations of parties in the United States, exposing the Texas conspiracy, and fanning to a fresh heat a zeal which already he was preparing to turn against the apprenticeship system in Lib. 6.86. the British West Indies. Liberator, passim; and A Voice to the United States of America from the Metropolis of Scotland; being an account of various meetings held in Edinburgh on the subject of American slavery, upon the return of Mr. George Thompson from his mission to that country (Edinburgh, 1836). Under his inspiration, new anti-slavery societies were formed and funds raised, and Lib. 7.3, 9, 10. nearly every dissenting body in the United Kingdom adopted resolutions and addresses on the subject of slav
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)
d and New; brought new divisions in politics, as the new conscience touched temperance and slavery. The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself. Men grew reflective and intellectual. There was a new consciousness (Atlantic Monthly, October, 1883, p. 529; and see the whole of this acute observer's Lecture on the Times, Dec. 2, 1841). There was a corresponding activity in England, manifested in the Reform Bill of 1832, the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, the Tractarian movement, Catholic Emancipation, and a hundred other ways. in the millennial ardor of the missionary, tract, and Bible societies for evangelizing the world, the kindred labors and hopes of the peace and temperance societies, the revivals of religion—more particularly the great so-called Finney revival of 1831, coincident Noyes's American Socialisms, p. 614. with the founding of the Liberator. This religious awakening took an especial hold on John Humphrey Noyes, a nat
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)
ison, dated Boston, Oct. 27, 1837, was published in the Liberty Bell for 1839. The typographical appearance of the paper was improved in the ninth number of the new volume by an Mar. 2, 1838. enlargement of the pictorial heading. The old conception (rather than the old design) of a slave auction at the national capital was retained, but beside it was placed a scene of busy labor and rejoicing as the sun rose upon an emancipated race. This scene was shortly to be realized in the British West Indies. Mr. Garrison's family expenses and responsibilities were increased in January by the birth of a son, named Ms. Jan. 20, 1838, W. L. G. to Mrs. Sarah Benson. for himself, in Boston, while he was without a home of his own. Later, upon the death of the wife of Amos A. Phelps, Aug. 31, 1838. Charlotte Phelps was the first president of the Boston Female A. S. Society (Lib. 8: 143). he was glad to relieve the latter of his unexpired lease of the furnished house at No. 2 Nassau Cour
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 7: the World's Convention.—1840. (search)
ome other manner. 3. That the emancipation of the eight hundred thousand bondmen in the British West India Colonies forms no exception to this lamentable truth—as it was effected by the colossal power of the mother country, and in opposition to the feelings and wishes of the West India planters. That power, it is true, was stirred up by the moral and religious action of the people of England; but, had the liberation of the West India slaves depended upon the triumph of moral suasion in the colonies over the depravity of the planters, there is not the slightest probability that it would havpromote it, (and no man can be doing more), and for all your previous efforts in the cause of West India emancipation, I honor and praise you. Be not weary in well-doing, and you cannot fail of succe P. Rogers might professionally call the day of the date of these presents [the anniversary of West India emancipation], and hastening to give a list of thirty-three wild Irish who enjoyed your compa
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
A. S. Convention, 2.356.—See also N. Colver, E. Galusha, C. P. Grosvenor, W. Hague, H. Malcolm, 0. S. Murray, R. Potter, F. Wayland. Barbadoes, James G. [d. West Indies, 1841], 1.395. Barclay, Robert, 2.110. Barker, James, 1.316. Barrett, Jeremiah, 1.353. Bartlett, Charles, 1.330. Bartlett, Ezekiel, a wood sawyer, 1.28, . Carey, Mathew [1760-1839], 1.296. Carlyle, Thomas [1795-1881], 2.77. Carroll, Charles [1737-1832], 1.297. Carver, John, 2.198. Cassey, Joseph [b. West Indies], 1.342; aid in buying Thoughts on Colon., 312; agent of Lib., 325.—Letter to I. Knapp, 1.325. Centinel (Boston), 2.5. Chace, Elizabeth Buffum, 1.398. ChM. P., Rev., V. P. Mass. A. S. S., 2.85, 87; stops his Lib., 54, 85; part in Boston Evangelical A. S. Soc., 252. Wesley, John, on American slavery, 1.139. West India Emancipation, last stages, 1.334; bill introduced in Commons, 348, opposed by Peel, 355, first reading in House, 366, passage, 379; celebrated by Am. abolitioni