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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 7: Baltimore jail, and After.—1830. (search)
in any way, or however rarely, in extending and perpetuating the horrible traffic? For myself, neither the terrors of the law, nor the fires of martyrdom, A few days since, Judge Brice observed to the Warden of the Jail, that Mr. Garrison was ambitious of becoming a martyr. Tell his Honor, I responded, that if his assertion be true, he is equally ambitious of gathering the faggots and applying the torch. shall deter me from invoking confiscation and imprisonment upon every such abettor. Pope illustrates the distinction with admirable conciseness: ‘Friend, spare the person, and expose the vice.’ ‘How! not condemn the sharper, but the dice!’ Moreover, you remark: If, in assailing the traffic, Mr. Garrison steps aside to wound those who are not, and would never be, guilty of joining in it, he is neither to be justified nor commended,—&c., &c. [Certainly not.] And he who is made the object of the odious charge, if innocent, is not to be browbeaten for taking lawful steps to
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 11: first mission to England.—1833. (search)
he cherished for natural scenery. During our interview with him, he took a recumbent position upon the sofa; but as we were about bidding him farewell, he called for his shoes, and, infirm as he was, proposed walking up and down the South parade with us, in order to point out some of the beauties of the landscape in view of his residence; but we begged him not to make the effort, and satisfied him by going to a front window, from which he showed us with considerable pleasure the house which Pope the poet occasionally occupied, and other interesting and beautiful objects. In the Keepsake The (British) Christian Keepsake for 1836, the occasion of the reminiscences. It contained also the portraits of the China missionary, Robert Morrison, T. F. Buxton, and Elizabeth Fry. Wilberforce's portrait Mr. Garrison declared worth the price of the book: every other that we have seen is a failure. And again, of it and Buxton's: They are true to life —so accurate that none need wish better.