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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 4: the reelection of Lincoln.—1864. (search)
ery harmonious, had it not been for Stephen and Parker. We had some plain S. S. Foster. things said on both sides; but, on the whole, we got along Parker Pillsbury. better than I expected, and the Presidential election received no partisan countenance. Before the Boston meetings occurred, Mr. Phillips had carried his hostility to Lincoln so far as to seek and accept, for the first time in his life, the votes of a political caucus, and he appeared as a delegate from his Ward in Boston May 23. at the State Convention to elect delegates to the approaching National Republican Convention at Baltimore. In this new role he made a speech in opposition to the Lib. 34.87, 94. resolution endorsing Mr. Lincoln, but without the slightest effect, for it was carried by acclamation. His utter failure to influence the Convention Mr. Phillips made special and unsuccessful efforts, also, to have an anti-Lincoln delegation sent to the Baltimore Convention from Vermont (Ms. June 13, 1865, S
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 10: death of Mrs. Garrison.—final visit to England.—1876, 1877. (search)
n all the rest possible. He was doubly afflicted, on the eve of his departure, by the death of a beloved May 11, 1877. daughter-in-law, who was to have accompanied him on Lucy McKim Garrison. his voyage, and, a few days later, by that of his dear friend, Edmund Quincy, whose funeral he was unable to May 17. attend, being already in New York and about to embark when the news reached him. His companion, as on his previous visit to England, was his youngest son. Leaving New York on the 23d of May, F. J. G. in the steamer Algeria, they arrived in Liverpool on the 3d of June, in good condition for the twelve weeks of delightful travel and social intercourse which followed, and of which it is difficult to give any adequate conception in this brief narrative. Obeying the injunctions which had been reiteratedly sent them, Mr. Garrison's friends endeavored, with a fair degree of success, to abstain from precipitating meetings and receptions upon him; but the desire to see and hear hi