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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 5: shall the Liberator lead—1839. (search)
ison's reply appeared in Lib. 10.19. feeling that seven-eighths of the abolitionists of New York State were in favor of it. Goodell doubted if such were the fact, and doubted his own duty. Lib. 9.198. Mr. Garrison dubbed the action folly, and said of the Lib. 9.195. nominees: We have too much confidence in the self-respect and good sense of these gentlemen to suppose that they will countenance a movement of this kind. They will decline this nomination. So in fact they did—Birney (December 17, 1839) on Lib. 10.6. the ground that the time was not yet ripe, and that the abolitionists would be divided; Le Moyne (December 10) on similar grounds of expediency, but also because the anti-slavery reformation is emphatically a religious enterprise, and the prominent measures for its accomplishment ought to be of a consistent character. Now, he continued, if we make political action so promi- Lib. 10.6. nent, will there not be some ground for those who have continually an evil eye up
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 23: Longfellow as a poet (search)
l literature worthy of the country of Niagara—of the land of forests and eagles. One feels an inexhaustible curiosity as to the precise manner in which each favorite poem by a favorite author comes into existence. In the case of Longfellow we find this illustrated only here and there. We know that The Arrow and the Song, for instance, came into his mind instantaneously; that My Lost Youth occurred to him in the night, after a day of pain, and was written the next morning; that on December 17, 1839, he read of shipwrecks reported in the papers and of bodies washed ashore near Gloucester, one lashed to a piece of the wreck, and that he wrote, There is a reef called Norman's Woe where many of these took place; among others the schooner Hesperus. Also the Sea-Flower on Black Rock. I must write a ballad upon this, also two others,— The Skeleton in Armor and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. A fortnight later he sat at twelve o'clock by his fire, smoking, when suddenly it came into his mind