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Switzerland (Switzerland) (search for this): chapter 5
dy, independent, frank, generous race do not exist. To a correspondent who had expressed fears about the climate, he declaimed in a manner which would have done credit to a native: Our Vermont climate against the world for a better! . . . Ibid., Nov 28, 1828. O, there's nothing comparable to our clear blue sky, arching the high and eternal ramparts of nature which tower up on every side:—talk as you may of the dreamy, unsubstantial atmosphere of Italy, and the more vigorous one of Switzerland.—And, moreover, such stars! so large, and gorgeous, and soul-overpowering—painting the heavens with such glorious and never-fading colors! We have been so long habituated to look up through the congregated smokes of a city, and to see such dirty and discolored clouds, with here and there a fainting star just visible over the top of some tall spire or elongated chimney, that here we inhabit another clime, and behold another creation. The competition of a few moments with one of our moun<
Burlington (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
the minister of the parish to do so, and return the same to the Editor of the Journal of the Times by or before the middle of December. That Mr. Garrison did not wait for the Bennington citizens to meet and endorse the petition before he sent it to the postmasters seems probable from the date appended to this request—October 20, 1828,—more than a fortnight before the meeting at the Academy. The postmasters in most of the towns responded nobly, and although some of the larger places, like Burlington, Montpelier, and Brattleboro, sent no returns, Mr. Garrison had the satisfaction of transmitting to the Representative of his Jour. of the Times, Jan. 23, 1829. district in Congress a petition bearing 2352 names as the voice of Vermont in favor of freedom,—probably the most numerously-signed petition on the subject offered during that session. It was promptly presented on the Ibid., Feb. 6, 1829. day of its receipt (January 26, 1829), and referred to the Committee on the District o<
East Bennington (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ention held in Boston May 24, 1836. He subsequently became a Congregational minister, and died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jan. 7, 1881. Mr. Garrison's home in Bennington was at the boardinghouse of Deacon Erwin Safford, which was patronized chiefly by pupils of the Seminary from abroad, and was near his office, on the stage road to Troy. The printingoffice of the Journal faced the village green, and its front windows looked eastward, across the valley in which lies the village of East Bennington, to the great wall of the Green Mountains, while the rear windows commanded a view of the beautiful Mount Anthony. Ever a passionate lover of nature, Mr. Garrison's enthusiasm over the scenery around Bennington could scarcely find expression in words. His spirits were exuberant, and he seemed each week to be more in love with his adopted State, and to regard his removal to Vermont as a wise and fortunate step. For moral worth, virtue and Jour. of the Times, Nov. 14, 1828. diligen
Grand Rapids (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ts for the advancement of the race; and when Mr. Ballard had a controversy with the Academy Committee, which led to his retiring and setting up a rival establishment, the Journal warmly sustained his cause. Mr. Ballard was one of the first subscribers to the Liberator, a Vice-President of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, and one of the Secretaries of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention held in Boston May 24, 1836. He subsequently became a Congregational minister, and died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jan. 7, 1881. Mr. Garrison's home in Bennington was at the boardinghouse of Deacon Erwin Safford, which was patronized chiefly by pupils of the Seminary from abroad, and was near his office, on the stage road to Troy. The printingoffice of the Journal faced the village green, and its front windows looked eastward, across the valley in which lies the village of East Bennington, to the great wall of the Green Mountains, while the rear windows commanded a view of the beautiful Mo
China (China) (search for this): chapter 5
rtilizes every barren spot. It is restricted only by the exact number of God's suffering creatures. But I mean to say, that, while we are aiding and instructing foreigners, we ought not to forget our own degraded countrymen; that neither duty nor honesty requires us to defraud ourselves that we may enrich others. The condition of the slaves, in a religious point of view, is deplorable, entitling them to a higher consideration, on our part, than any other race; higher than the Turks or Chinese, for they have the privileges of instruction; higher than the Pagans, for they are not dwellers in a gospel land; higher than our red men of the forest, for we do not bind them with gyves, nor treat them as chattels. And here let me ask, What has Christianity done, by direct effort, for our slave population? Comparatively nothing. She has explored the isles of the ocean for objects of commiseration; but, amazing stupidity! she can gaze without emotion on a multitude of miserable being
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ittier, wrote Mr. Jour. of the Times, Dec. 5, 1828. Garrison, in introducing a poem of his, seems determined to elicit our best panegyrics, and not ours only, but also those of the public. His genius and situation no more correspond with each other than heaven and earth. But let him not despair. Fortune will come, ere long, with both hands full. Another young editor who was noticed and commended in the Journal was George D. Prentice, then conducting the New England Weekly Review at Hartford, in which he was, a year later, to be succeeded by Whittier; but while praising his vigor and independence, Mr. Garrison also criticized the tendency to coarseness which even then betrayed itself in his writings. The winter which he spent in Bennington was a very happy one to Mr. Garrison. He was relieved, from the outset, of all pecuniary responsibility and anxiety, the gentlemen who had invited him there assuming the financial risks of the enterprise, while they gave him absolute disc
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
actically gone over to the Jackson party. As Vermont was strongly for Adams, and as Bennington, thed the formation of anti-slavery societies in Vermont, and spoke of the importance of petitioning Con of the subscribers, inhabitants of the State of Vermont, humbly suggests to your honorable bodiesa petition bearing 2352 names as the voice of Vermont in favor of freedom,—probably the most numeroideration of the question, and Mr. Mallary of Vermont, who alone among the New England members oppoand most interesting newspaper ever issued in Vermont. One column was always devoted to the subjecs adopted State, and to regard his removal to Vermont as a wise and fortunate step. For moral worth would have done credit to a native: Our Vermont climate against the world for a better! . . .n by John S. Robinson, who became Governor of Vermont in 1853,—the only Democratic Governor the Stahad been in the city but a fortnight, from my Vermont residence, when the notification came; and, a
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
fearlessly, as becomes men who are determined to clear their country and themselves from the guilt of oppressing God's free and lawful creatures. The debate in Congress occurred on the 6th of January, 1829, when the Hon. Charles Miner, of Pennsylvania, introduced in the House of Representatives a preamble setting forth the iniquities and horrors of the slave-trade as carried on in the District, and the power and duty of Congress to legislate concerning it; and proposed resolutions that the and return to bondage of the poor fugitives excited scarcely any notice, and even such tragedies as the attempted suicide, Ibid., Oct. 31, Dec. 12, 1828. at Rochester, N. Y., of one who preferred death to slavery, and the execution, in southern Pennsylvania, of another for having killed the wretch who had captured and was carrying him back to the South, were mentioned in the briefest manner and without comment. The North submitted without protest to the obligations imposed upon it by the s
Liberia (Liberia) (search for this): chapter 5
perpetual alarm; how, in addition to these, shall we be able to contend successfully with millions of armed and desperate men, as we must eventually, if slavery do not cease? At the conclusion of Mr. Garrison's address Mr. Plumly, an agent of the American Colonization Society, briefly urged its claims to support, and a collection in aid of it was taken up; but, beyond what is quoted above, the orator of the day said nothing in favor of the Society, except to commend the infant colony of Liberia. The Boston American Traveller of three days later contained a notice of the discourse, in which the orator was described as of quite a youthful appearance, and habited in a suit of black, with his neck bare, and a broad linen collar spread over that of his coat. His prefatory remarks were rendered inaudible by the feebleness of his utterance; but, as he advanced, his voice was raised, his confidence was regained, and his earnestness became perceptible. The Traveller's abstract of his
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
hurch, Esq., and the Secretary, James Ballard, the Principal of the Seminary, between whom and Mr. Garrison a warm friendship had sprung up. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of Ibid., Nov. 14, 1828. the United States of America, in Congress assembled: The petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of the State of Vermont, humbly suggests to your honorable bodies the propriety of adopting some measures for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. ossing mountains of law. The excitement was natural. The case was that of Farnum, Executor of Tuttle Hubbard, vs. Brooks, and was heard in the Mass. Supreme Court. The two giants in opposition were William Wirt, ex-Attorney-General of the United States, and Daniel Webster. Wirt's eloquence made a great impression. (Boston Traveller, June 23, 30, 1829; Columbian Centinel, June 27.) I stand up here in a more solemn court, to assist in a far greater cause; not to impeach the character of
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