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Java (Indonesia) (search for this): chapter 8
. into which I ever entered. . . . His face had almost an angelic radiance about it (Ms. Jan. 11, 1868, W. L. G. to H. C. Wright). and James Haughton was there from Dublin to renew the old friendship. Other friends were at Liverpool to say the parting word—George Thompson, Richard D. Webb, and Miss Estlin of Bristol among Mary A. Estlin. them. On the morning of the 25th a complimentary breakfast was given to Mr. Garrison by Mr. James R. Jeffrey, a prominent merchant of Liverpool, and the evening of the same day was spent with a delightful company at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Crosfield, the latter a niece of James Cropper. The next day Mr. Oct. 26. Garrison, with his son, sailed for home on the Java, having as fellow-passengers Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, Miss Anne Warren Weston, and other friends, whose cheerful companionship mitigated the discomforts of the rough and uncomfortable voyage; and on the 6th of November Boston was reached and the fourth transatlantic journey ended
Noddle's Island (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
scene might accelerate his recovery; the temptation to visit the International Exposition at Paris; and an appointment by the American Freedman's Union Commission to represent it at an International Anti-Slavery Conference to be held in that city in August,—all combined to determine his going, and George Thompson, after three years residence in America, decided to return to England with him. On the 8th of May, they sailed together from Boston on the Cuba. A host of friends gathered at East Boston to see them off, and preparations had been made to escort them down the harbor with the Revenue Cutter, which Collector Russell offered for the purpose, but a heavy rain Thomas Russell. prevented this. Mr. Waterston, of the Testimonial Rev. Robert C. Waterston. Committee, announced to Mr. Garrison that Thirty Thousand Dollars had been collected and placed to his credit, and as the Cuba swung into the stream and began her voyage, the guns of the gaily dressed Revenue Cutter fired a part
Preussen (search for this): chapter 8
indows had an especial fascination for him. He had never before shown any interest in diamonds or precious stones, but the great jewelry shops in the Palais Royal arcades fairly dazzled him. Every day brought its novel experience, and was so fully occupied that he found scant time for recording his impressions; hence, his letters present little that is quotable. He saw the great military display of the 6th of June, when Napoleon entertained his guests the Czar Alexander and King William of Prussia (accompanied by Bismarck) with a review of sixty thousand troops in the Bois de Boulogne. As a spectacle, he wrote, it was the most gorgeous and Ms. June 7, to H. E. G. the most imposing of any I have ever witnessed, or ever expect to witness. The sun shone clearly out, adding to the brilliancy and effectiveness of the scene. . . . Of course, in a moral point of view, this mighty warlike display gave me no pleasure, but rather much pain at seeing such a perversion of human nature
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 8
une 7, to H. E. G. the most imposing of any I have ever witnessed, or ever expect to witness. The sun shone clearly out, adding to the brilliancy and effectiveness of the scene. . . . Of course, in a moral point of view, this mighty warlike display gave me no pleasure, but rather much pain at seeing such a perversion of human nature in support of usurpation and oppression. As the royal party rode out of the park, they were fired upon by a Pole, who doubtless intended to kill the Emperor of Russia, but he only succeeded in killing the horse of an officer riding by the side of the royal carriage, the pistol bursting in his hand. He was immediately arrested. I have dined with Madame Coignet and Miss Dowling, who have been at the head of the Freedmen's movement in Paris. . . . I there met the Editor of the Journal des Debats, but as John Lemoinne. he could not speak English, nothing passed between us. I have also dined with Monsieur Tourgueneff, my Russian admirer, Nicholas Tou
Port Glasgow (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 8
ertainly never cared for them, at home or abroad. . . . I do not suffer very much, as long as we can preserve perfect quiet; and we have no cares or troubles in this house. All about me is love and peace. I am your affectionate old friend, H. Martineau. During their stay in Glasgow, Mr. Garrison and his children were the guests of Mr. A. F. Stoddard, an American merchant, a nephew of Arthur Tappan; and the views of the lower Highlands from his beautiful residence on the Clyde, at Port Glasgow, were the only glimpses they obtained of them. On the 24th of July they returned to London for a fortnight of comparative respite, and quiet social enjoyment. They again passed a delightful evening with Mazzini at Aug. 3. the house of Mrs. Stansfeld's brother, William H. Ashurst, Jr., and saw him for the last time. A day or two later there came this note from him: Joseph Mazzini to W. L. Garrison. Aug. 3, 18 Fulham Road, S. W. Ms. my dear friend: We may never more see o
Kensington (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 8
in 1846, before he was overwhelmed by letters and notes of invitation, and proffered courtesies from friends in London and in other parts of the kingdom. After George Thompson, his first call was on John Bright, whom he happened never to have met in his previous visits. Their interview was delightful for its cordiality and June 19. informality, seeming rather like the meeting of old friends. The next day he paid his respects to the Duke and Duchess June 20. of Argyll, at Argyll Lodge, Kensington, desiring to testify his appreciation of the Duke's unfaltering support of the Northern cause during the civil war, and his grateful remembrance of the friendship and support of the Duchess of Sutherland, whose daughter, a young girl in 1840, now greeted him as the Duchess of Argyll. Five of her twelve children were brought into the room to see him whose name had ever been an honored one in her mother's house. A day or two later he received a note from the (Dowager) Duchess of Sutherland
Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 8
, and George Thompson, after three years residence in America, decided to return to England with him. On the 8th of May, they sailed together from Boston on the Cuba. A host of friends gathered at East Boston to see them off, and preparations had been made to escort them down the harbor with the Revenue Cutter, which Collector he Testimonial Rev. Robert C. Waterston. Committee, announced to Mr. Garrison that Thirty Thousand Dollars had been collected and placed to his credit, and as the Cuba swung into the stream and began her voyage, the guns of the gaily dressed Revenue Cutter fired a parting salute in his honor, which was repeated by the boys of themitation to two days compelled a pre-arranged and inflexible programme. The various papers read or contributed dealt with the East African slave trade, slavery in Cuba and Brazil, and the results of emancipation in the British Colonies and the United States; and addresses beseeching their sympathy and cooperation in suppressing
Arthur Tappan (search for this): chapter 8
e slanders and scoldings of strangers are; and I don't know that they have done me any harm. I certainly never cared for them, at home or abroad. . . . I do not suffer very much, as long as we can preserve perfect quiet; and we have no cares or troubles in this house. All about me is love and peace. I am your affectionate old friend, H. Martineau. During their stay in Glasgow, Mr. Garrison and his children were the guests of Mr. A. F. Stoddard, an American merchant, a nephew of Arthur Tappan; and the views of the lower Highlands from his beautiful residence on the Clyde, at Port Glasgow, were the only glimpses they obtained of them. On the 24th of July they returned to London for a fortnight of comparative respite, and quiet social enjoyment. They again passed a delightful evening with Mazzini at Aug. 3. the house of Mrs. Stansfeld's brother, William H. Ashurst, Jr., and saw him for the last time. A day or two later there came this note from him: Joseph Mazzini
Henry Fawcett (search for this): chapter 8
r tables were John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Professors Maurice and Huxley, William E. Forster, and many other members of Parliament, Sir Charles and Lady Trevelyan (daughter of Zachary Macaulay), Miss Cobden, Lady Lyell and Miss Lyell, Professor Fawcett and wife, Professor Beesly, Henry Fawcett. Victor Schoelcher, As Colonial Minister under the French Republic of 1848, Schoelcher precipitated the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. W. Vernon Harcourt, Jacob Bright, E. S. BeesHenry Fawcett. Victor Schoelcher, As Colonial Minister under the French Republic of 1848, Schoelcher precipitated the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. W. Vernon Harcourt, Jacob Bright, E. S. Beesly. Justin McCarthy, Edward Miall, Frederic Harrison, Geo. J. Holyoake, William Black, and scores of others. Of Mr. Garrison's English anti-slavery friends there were the Ashursts, Stansfelds, Shaens, Taylors, Thompsons, and Chessons; and Richard D. Webb came over from Ireland for the occasion. America was represented by the U. S. Consul at London (Mr. Morse), and by a number of anti-slavery friends who were happily in London—Mrs. Chapman's daughters and the Rev. William Henry Channing being
Gasparin (search for this): chapter 8
e franchise had now been conferred, under the reconstruction law recently Mar. 23, 1867. enacted by Congress. He closed with words of cheer to the abolitionists of Spain, Portugal, and Brazil, and with a warm tribute to the Duc de Broglie, whom, as the coadjutor of Wilberforce, Clarkson, Buxton, and Macaulay, he had hoped to meet; to the French Republicans of 1848, who, during their brief control of the Government, had promptly abolished slavery in the Colonies ; and to Laboulaye, Cochin, Gasparin, Hugo, and Schoelcher, Victor Schoelcher (ante, p. 197) had resided in London since the Coup daEtat of 1851, and declined to attend the Conference while France was still under the Emperor's heel. It was difficult for Laboulaye and Cochin, in their addresses, to conceal the bitterness and humiliation with which they regarded the espionage and repression of public assemblies by the official censor. for their powerful testimonies against slavery universally, their clear perception and fait
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