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Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 13
Poland, gasping on her lance, The impulse of our cheering call? And shall the slave, beneath our eye, Clank o'er our fields his hateful chain? And toss his fettered arms on high, And groan for Freedom's gift, in vain? Just God! and shall we calmly rest, The Christian's scorn,—the heathen's mirth,— Content to live the lingering jest And byword of a mocking Earth? Shall our own glorious land retain That curse which Europe scorns to bear? Shall our own brethren drag the chain Which not even Russia's menials wear? The truth is, that had Thompson and Stuart had a pro-slavery message to deliver, their nativity would have been forgotten, or made to emphasize their support of the peculiar institution. They would have been cheered and feted instead of mobbed. It was the human nil a me alienum He knew it might be asked, how he could presume to make foreign matters the subject of his criticism and condemnation. He would answer in the words of Terence—Homo sum: nil humani a me alienum <
Liverpool (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 13
of a flute to my ears. . . . He is coming among us as an angel of mercy. . . . The spectacle of the chivalrous Lafayette's embarkation for this country, to Cf. Lib. 5.139, 195. assist in redeeming it from a foreign yoke, has far less of sublimity in it than the high moral heroism and noble benevolence of George Thompson. He comes, not as a foreigner, but as a man and a brother, feeling for those in bonds as bound with them. A young man of thirty years, George Thompson was born in Liverpool, June 18, 1804. his person is tall, graceful, and agile, his countenance fine and attractive, his voice mellifluent, and his action all that Demosthenes could desire. As an orator, Cf. Lib. 6.75. he surpasses every speaker that I have ever heard, O'Connell not excepted. His appeals are absolutely electrifying. The similarity in age between Mr. Garrison and the English orator favored a friendly attachment, but there May's Recollections, p. 108, seq. were other circumstances—such
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
ed States, as little dreaming that I should be a married man within twelve months as that I should occupy the chair of his holiness the Pope. At that time I knew nothing of Freedom's Cottage, and my acquaintance with Helen was too slight to authorize me to hope that a union for life might take place between us. It has been the most eventful year in my history. I have been the occasion of many uproars, and a continual disturber of the public peace. As soon as I landed, I turned the city of New York upside down. Five thousand people turned out to see me tarred and feathered, but were disappointed. There was also a small hubbub in Boston on my arrival. The excitement passed away, but invective and calumny still followed me. By dint of some industry and much persuasion, I succeeded in inducing the abolitionists in New York to join our little band in Boston, in calling a National Convention at Philadelphia. We met—and such a body of men, for zeal, firmness, integrity, benevolence
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 13
te emancipation; the organization of antislavery societies, local and national; the discrediting of the Colonization Society, at home and abroad; the annexation, so to speak, before it had cooled off, of the profound anti-slavery sentiment of Great Britain to his struggling enterprise—the invitation to George Thompson to accept a lecturing agency in this country ranks as the last but, strategically, by no means the least. A friendly critic, however, himself a foreigner, Von Holst, Constitsion. Thus Charles Stuart, in the circular appeal, already mentioned, to the Ante, p. 434. English friends of humanity and religion on behalf of the colored Manual Labor School (London, November 1, 1833): The sympathy and the aid of Great Britain are not invited Lib. 4.58. with even the remotest view of interfering with the political establishments of the United States; for with these we have nothing—and ought to have nothing—to do. But for the purpose of giving our cordial counten<
Canterbury (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
ugh 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 led. Almost in the ride to Canterbury he had Ante, p. 390. offered himself to Miss Helen, his companion, but lacked the courage. In January, 1834, he began a correspondence which speedily culminated in a proposal of marriage on his part, and in a joyful yet self-distrustful acceptance on hers. In April, on his way to Philadelphia, he visited her for the first time as an acknowledged suitor, and, to his great satisfaction, was received by her in her customary simplicity of dress. Truly, he writes. not Ms. April 24, 18
France (France) (search for this): chapter 13
ntrymen in chains! Speak! shall their agony of prayer Come thrilling to our hearts in vain? To us whose fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain? What! shall we send, with lavish breath, Our sympathies across the wave, Where Manhood, on the field of death, Strikes for his freedom or a grave? Shall prayers go up, and hymns be sung For Greece, the Moslem fetters spurning, And millions hail with pen and tongue Our light on all her altars burning? Shall Belgium feel, and gallant France, By Vendome's pile and Schoenbrun's wall, And Poland, gasping on her lance, The impulse of our cheering call? And shall the slave, beneath our eye, Clank o'er our fields his hateful chain? And toss his fettered arms on high, And groan for Freedom's gift, in vain? Just God! and shall we calmly rest, The Christian's scorn,—the heathen's mirth,— Content to live the lingering jest And byword of a mocking Earth? Shall our own glorious land retain That curse which Europe scorns to bear? Shall o
Benson (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
of his behavior under this persecution (in Clarke's Newes from New England) shows how little he differed in spirit and in manne from the equally outraged Quakers. He cherished their spirit, dressed very much in their style, and generally [while in Providence] attended their religious meetings. Two of his daughters 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 led. Almost in the ride to Canterbury he had Ante, p. 390. offered himself to Miss Helen, his companion, but lacked the courage. In January, 1834, he began a correspondence which speedily cul
Dresden, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
pecuniary assistance for his own movement; and he was now to bring English opinion to bear directly on the United States by introducing a champion of the victorious cause of Wilberforce and Clarkson. The last step was undoubtedly the most venturesome of the three, but the candid historian must hesitate to pronounce it ill-advised, whether Mr. Garrison's object was to cement the philanthropic English alliance, to shame his country anew, George Ticknor writes to William H. Prescott from Dresden, Feb. 8, 1836: Your remarks about Dr. Channing's book on Slavery bring up the whole subject afresh before me. You cannot think how difficult and often how disagreeable a matter it is to an American travelling in Europe, to answer all the questions that are put to him about it, and hear all the remarks that are made in consequence. . . . One good, and only one that I know of, can come from this state of opinion in Europe: the Southern States must be rebuked by it, and it is better the reproa
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
pted resolutions, framed by three of the foremost citizens of Lowell, Including John P. Robinson and Thomas (afterwards Judge) Hopkinson, leading lawyers. From the latter's office Wendell Phillips had lately gone to be admitted to the bar at Concord. Mass. (Crowley's Lowell, p. 119). embodying the sense of the placard, though condescending to deplore the existence of slavery as a blot on the reputation of our otherwise free country. In Boston, after this, no other hall could be found fouture (Ms. fragment, 185–, Geo. Thompson to W. L. G.) for several weeks, he took permanent lodgings in Roxbury not far away, where the premature confinement of his wife gave him time to reflect on the superior patriotism of Lowell, Augusta, and Concord, as contrasted with the un-American cordiality manifested towards him at Portland, Brunswick, Providence, and elsewhere. Kindred thoughts were also suggested by the press abuse of himself as reproduced in the Liberator's new department, The Ref
Brunswick, Me. (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
e hospitality of Freedom's Cottage The cottage in the wood, where, on a bleak winter's night, we huddled round a log fire and talked over our plans for the future (Ms. fragment, 185–, Geo. Thompson to W. L. G.) for several weeks, he took permanent lodgings in Roxbury not far away, where the premature confinement of his wife gave him time to reflect on the superior patriotism of Lowell, Augusta, and Concord, as contrasted with the un-American cordiality manifested towards him at Portland, Brunswick, Providence, and elsewhere. Kindred thoughts were also suggested by the press abuse of himself as reproduced in the Liberator's new department, The Refuge of Oppression, A natural development of the original Slavery Record of the first volume; into which we propose to copy some of the choicest specimens of anti-abolition morality, decency, logic and humanity—generally without note or comment (Lib. 4.3). A year later: It has already opened the eyes of many to see how cruelly abolitionis
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