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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 5: Bennington and the Journal of the Times—1828-29. (search)
hough not least, to impart the graces of a Boston dandy to the unpolished natives of our happy State. These parting gibes elicited no more attention from their subject than had others which appeared earlier, accusing him of coming to breed strife in Bennington, and styling him Lloyd Garrulous; and as soon as he could close up his affairs he started for Boston. The route in those days was by stage to Brattleboroa, thence down the Connecticut valley to Greenfield, and thence by way of Worcester to Boston; and the journey on this occasion was an unusually severe and difficult one, owing to the deep drifts which still remained from a tremendous snow-storm that had covered all New England and the Middle States several feet deep the previous month. The stage ride to Brattleboroa occupied the first day, and the horses broke through the snow and fell so many times that they became terrified and exhausted. Arrived there (in April, 1829), he again went to Mr. Collier's boarding-hous
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)
ring was not so far out of the way. In the south of France (Tarn-et-Garonne) Garrigues and Garrison (or Garrisson) are regarded as variations of the same name. The latter signifies little oak. would not rank quite so low in his estimation. Worcester was the first place visited by Mr. Garrison, his choice being influenced by the fact that an Anti-Masonic Convention was to be held there, on September 5, to which he had been appointed delegate for Suffolk Lib. 2.158. County. A pamphlet report of the Proceedings of the Third Anti-Masonic Convention at Worcester, in the Mass. Historical Society's Library, contains an address to the people of Massachusetts, signed by the delegates. Mr. Garrison's name figures among the sixty-one from Suffolk Co. Though heartily in sympathy with its objects, I go for the immediate, unconditional, and total abolition of Freemasonry (Lib. 2.158). he appears to have taken no active part in its proceedings; and having spoken on slavery in the Town
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
aughters became Friends through convincement. Religion, philanthropy and hospitality moulded the family life at Friendship's Valley, as Prudence Crandall had gratefully denominated the Benson place, which lay on both sides of the Norwich and Worcester road, in an intervale at the foot of the long hill separating Brooklyn from Pomfret. Nowhere could Mr. Garrison have found an atmosphere more congenial to his moral sense, or more inimical to the solitary and unsettled life he had hitherto ledre playfully informed in advance that they would soon be Lib. 4.131. enabled to decide whether the editor of the Liberator is to espouse a white or a black woman. On the nuptial day, the journey for Boston was begun in carriages by way of Worcester, the couple being accompanied by Mr. Garrison's aunt Newell, his mother's youngest sister, the only one of his relatives present at the wedding. On the 5th, housekeeping began in Freedom's Cottage, on Bower St., near Walnut St., Roxbury, in wh