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October, 1835 AD (search for this): chapter 4
Pennsylvania Hall, p. 141; Lib. 8.87). Awful as is this occurrence in Philadelphia, it will do incalculable good to our cause; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Our friends are all in excellent spirits, shouting, Alleluia! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth! Let the earth rejoice! From the destruction of an office sign to that of a public hall seems a long stride, but in fact there was the closest possible logical connection between the Boston mob of October, 1835, and that which laid Pennsylvania Hall in ashes. In both cases the right of free speech was aimed at and temporarily suppressed. But there were other resemblances, amounting almost to identity. The attack in Philadelphia, as in Boston, involved the anti-slavery office; This was the southernmost room on the Sixth-Street front, and was the object of special attention from the mob, who used its literature to feed the flames. Lundy's effects—his papers, books, clothes, everything of v
September 21st, 1838 AD (search for this): chapter 4
r from afar. Amasa Walker was made President pro tem.; Oliver Johnson, Secretary pro tem.; George W. Benson, one of the committee to nominate permanent officers. Of what followed, Mr. Garrison has left an account in a letter dated Boston, September 21, 1838, to his wife in Providence, from whom he had parted on Monday the 17th: Next morning, attended the Peace Convention, not Ms. knowing what to anticipate as to its complexion or numbers, and hardly attempting to imagine what would be God calmly and meekly to abide the issue. Mr. Quincy's legal scruples against signing this manifesto are set forth in a letter written on the day subsequent to its adoption: Edmund Quincy to W. L. Garrison. Beacon St. [Boston], Sept. 21, 1838. Ms. my dear Garrison: My unwillingness to be left out of the band of generous spirits who are joined with you in the holy work of disseminating what I hold to be true Christianity, makes me submit to you these brief considerations. My c
December 17th (search for this): chapter 4
as the will of the House that every petition, memorial, resolution, Wilson's Rise and Fall of Slave Power, 1.395. proposition, or paper, touching or relating, in any way or to any extent whatever, to slavery or the abolition thereof, shall on presentation, without any further action thereon, be laid upon the table, without being debated, printed, or referred. The preamble was voted in detail, being opposed, in varying minorities, by the fire-eaters, represented by Wise, of Virginia On Dec. 17, Wise was called to order by the Speaker for a mere allusion to the doctrine that it is constitutional to abolish slavery in the District. Such, under the new gag, was freedom of speech even for a pro-slavery extremist in Congress. In this same speech Wise embodied sections 2 and 4 of the Atherton preamble in his objection to receiving a memorial for the recognition of Haytian independence, viz., because it is but part and parcel of the English scheme set on foot by Garrison, and to bring
July 15th, 1838 AD (search for this): chapter 4
he almost fatal attack of fever induced by the fatigue of her Philadelphia experience, informs Mr. Garrison that H. C. Wright has recently been at Weymouth, much to the discomfiture of Mr. Perkins. He delivered seven lectures there, the people hearing him gladly. We all hope to see you at the Peace Convention, which, as far as I can learn, bids fair to excite a general interest. Mrs. Chapman adds: I send you Emerson's oration [the famous discourse before the Harvard Divinity School, July 15, 1838]. It is rousing the wrath of the Cambridge powers that be in an astonishing manner. How cowardly are Unitarians generally! They take the alarm at sentiments which differ only in shading from their own (in matters of doctrine, I mean). It was with reference to this epoch-making event that J. Q. Adams wrote in his diary on Aug. 2, 1840: A young man, named Ralph Waldo Emerson, a son of my once loved friend, William Emerson, and a classmate of my lamented son George, after failing in the
September 12th, 1838 AD (search for this): chapter 4
in such confusion as to deprive him of his just dues. Add to this that he had married unadvisedly. Already his financial wreck was clearly to be predicted, and the thought of it began to prey heavily upon the poor man's spirit. A forlorn advertisement for Lib. 8.111. a loan appeared week after week in the Liberator. The following letter to his old partner and still co-proprietor of the paper depicts his state of mind: Isaac Knapp to W. L. Garrison, at Brooklyn. Boston, September 12, 1838. Ms. dear friend: Accept my thanks for your kind and affectionate letter. I am truly grateful for your recollections of the past. Although I never doubt your affection for me, yet, as time passes and circumstances alter, it is refreshing and encouraging to have, now and then, a renewal of your continued regard for me, however unworthy of such regard I may esteem myself. . . . During the past summer I have had a very good degree of health; but, as far as pecuniary matters are c
December 20th (search for this): chapter 4
tion for this function consisting in his avowedly not having seen or read the Liberator for two years past. Fitch was the chief speaker, but the membership was not enlarged beyond the original group of Appellants. A little later, their organ, the Spectator, died of inanition. Nevertheless, the Lib. 8.71. seed of discord had been planted, and was growing out of sight. At the close of the year it was ready to spring up and blossom. The first outward sign was the resignation, on the 20th of December, of Amos A. Phelps Ms. as General Agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. W. L. Garrison to Mary Benson, at Providence. Boston, December 23, 1838. Ms. The annual meeting of our State Anti-Slavery Society will be held on the 23d of January, and will be well worth your attendance, on the score of interest. I anticipate an animated, almost a stormy scene. Facts are daily coming to my ears which show that the spirit of sectarianism is busy at its old game of divis
December 22nd, 1838 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ect is universal emancipation,—to redeem woman as well as man from a servile to an equal condition,—we shall go for the rights of woman to their utmost extent. Such was the first outcome of Mr. Garrison's Perfectionism, whose agreement, be it more or less—or not at all—with Noyes's, it is needless to discuss here. Perfectionism is a dark subject, and attempts to throw light upon it may easily end in leaving it more obscure than ever. Mrs. Child, for example, wrote to her brother, December 22, 1838: Something is coming toward us (I know not what), with Letters, p. 33. a glory round its head, and its long luminous rays are even now glancing on the desert and the rock. The Unitarian, busily at work pulling down old structures, suddenly sees it gild some ancient pillar, or shed its soft light on some mossgrown altar; and he stops with a troubled doubt whether all is to be destroyed; and if destroyed, wherewith shall he build anew? He looks upward for the coming dawn, and cal
December 23rd, 1838 AD (search for this): chapter 4
larged beyond the original group of Appellants. A little later, their organ, the Spectator, died of inanition. Nevertheless, the Lib. 8.71. seed of discord had been planted, and was growing out of sight. At the close of the year it was ready to spring up and blossom. The first outward sign was the resignation, on the 20th of December, of Amos A. Phelps Ms. as General Agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. W. L. Garrison to Mary Benson, at Providence. Boston, December 23, 1838. Ms. The annual meeting of our State Anti-Slavery Society will be held on the 23d of January, and will be well worth your attendance, on the score of interest. I anticipate an animated, almost a stormy scene. Facts are daily coming to my ears which show that the spirit of sectarianism is busy at its old game of division—working in darkness, and secretly endeavoring to transfer our sacred cause to other hands. The leaders in this work of mischief are clerical abolitionists. The
July 22nd, 1838 AD (search for this): chapter 4
Warren, and Edmund Quincy and Amasa Walker, of Boston, fixed on September 18 as the date, and the Marlboroa Chapel as the place, of holding the proposed convention, to which all were invited without regard to sect or party, and without being committed to any programme. Each of the five committeemen was a Garrisonian abolitionist, but they were not equally agreed in their views of peace. You and brother Wright have startled me, writes Mr. May to his friend Garrison in July, but I Ms. July 22, 1838. am determined to follow wherever truth may guide. I look forward to the Convention with high expectation. If we do not drive off the timid ones by broaching our ultra doctrines in the beginning, but lead them along through the preliminaries,—getting them to concede certain fundamental truths,—we may at last surprise many into the acknowledgment of a faith from which at first they would revolt. By way of preparation, he suggested that Mr. Garrison bring a report on the inquiry whether
September 8th (search for this): chapter 4
ns of a Unitarian preacher and schoolmaster, starts a new doctrine of Transcendentalism, declares all the old revelations superannuated and worn-out, and announces the approach of new revelations and prophecies. Garrison and the non-resistant abolitionists, Brownson and the Marat Democrats, phrenology and animal magnetism, all come in, furnishing each some plausible rascality as an ingredient for the bubbling cauldron of religion and politics. Finally, Mr. Garrison himself, replying, September 8, to S. J. May, tells of domestic sickness having prevented him from drawing up the report desired of him, or indeed from going to the Convention prepared to take an effective part in it. He had hoped to express his views on some topics; but you know that I shrink from extemporaneous discussion. Further, in the same letter: We shall probably find no difficulty in bringing a large Ms. majority of the Convention to set their seal of condemnation upon the present militia system, and
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