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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 2 2 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)
thy could suggest—is simply to assert the truth, which all my friends in this quarter know full well. But the existence of the Liberator depended upon this new arrangement; and justice to those who had to sustain it required that it should be made. This arrangement was to expire in two years by its own limitation—that is, on the first day of January, 1842. Mr. Garrison's contemporary account differs slightly from the foregoing in respect to the amount of the pecuniary award. On January 4, 1840, he writes to G. W. Benson: After a great deal of trouble, we have finally got our Ms. arrangements made with friend Knapp. The committee of reference awarded him $175—being $125 less than was proposed to him in the conference of friends at Loring's office. He E. G. Loring. is in a very miserable state of mind, and very much embittered in his feelings, I am sorry to say, toward us all, and myself in particular. I have scarcely had any conversation with him, on this account. Yo<
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 6: the schism.—1840. (search)
the Democratic party, had decided to form a new party having slavery for its main issue. Such an organization would have been judged by Mr. Garrison according to its performances, but would never have been regarded otherwise than as an encouraging sign of the times. The abundant private correspondence of this year will enable us to present the story largely in the words of the chief actors. Let us begin with an extract from a letter of Mr. Garrison's to G. W. Benson, dated Boston, January 4, 1840: How sorry I am to say that it will be utterly out of my Ms. power to be with you at Hartford on the 8th inst. But what I cannot do, I cannot. I know how great will be the disappointment of the Connecticut friends—your own—and all the household at Brooklyn. And, what is worse, Quincy tells me Edmund Quincy. that he will not be able to go. He made the attempt before The meeting was originally appointed for Dec. 18, 1839, and actually met on that date, Birney being present. A