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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 6: the genius of Universal emancipation.—1829-30. (search)
or the benefit of Haytian subscribers, and also contained a list of agents for the paper in different cities. This included the names of James Mott, of Philadelphia, Dr. Bartholomew Fussell, of Kennett Square, Pa., and Samuel Philbrick, of Boston, none of whom were then personally known to Mr. Garrison, but who subsequently became his life-long friends and co-workers; and also James Cropper, of Liverpool. It was doubtless to the last-named gentleman, an active supporter of Wilberforce and Buxton in the English anti-slavery movement, that Lundy and Garrison were indebted for a frequent supply of reports and other publications showing the progress of the agitation for West-India emancipation. They published considerable extracts from these in the Genius, contrasting the activity of the British with the apathy of the American abolitionists, and trying to incite the latter to similar effort. Special attention was called to the English Ladies' Anti-Slavery Societies, in the Ladies' Rep
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 10: Prudence Crandall.—1833. (search)
activity to the cause they were trying to smother (Abdy's Journal of a residence, 1.15). A young man, not yet twenty-eight; without means or social standing or a numerous following; despised, hated, hunted with a price upon his head; armed only with the blessings of an outcast race and the credentials of an insignificant body of fanatics, was to present himself before the honorable, powerful, and world-famous advocates of British emancipation—before Clarkson and Wilberforce and Macaulay and Buxton—in the midst of their parliamentary triumph, and before the British public, in opposition to a society which, with all its lying pretences, could truthfully say of itself through its emissary, Cresson, that it had the support of the wealth, the respectability and the piety of the American people. If ever a sense of personal littleness and deficiency was natural, it was here. But on the other hand the task was less formidable than that which the youth was leaving behind him; the potency of
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 11: first mission to England.—1833. (search)
has interesting and affecting interviews with Buxton, Wilberforce, and Clarkson. He exposes Elliotterest. Among the speakers are Lord Suffield, Buxton, Macaulay, Zachary Macaulay, father of the rt of it shall be paid by the slaves. With Buxton Mr. Garrison had had a curious experience: London Breakfast to W. L. G., p. 38. from Mr. Buxton to take breakfast with him. Presenting myselthat I care to remember, or to tell of! For Mr. Buxton had somehow or other supposed that no white rce, our esteemed friend and coadjutor, Thomas Fowell Buxton, had this picture drawn of him by his gns. . . . Still, aside from this false step, Mr. Buxton deserves universal admiration and gratitude s of the China missionary, Robert Morrison, T. F. Buxton, and Elizabeth Fry. Wilberforce's portrait ter of regret from Mr. Buxton: Thomas Fowell Buxton to W. L. Garrison. 54, Devonshire Stre, with real esteem, Yours respectfully, T. F. Buxton. Mr. Garrison was then introduced by G[2 more...]
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
, of which the Pennsylvania Society, with Franklin at its head, was the earliest and the longest-lived. According to a letter dated April 10, 1835, from Thomas Fowell Buxton to Prof. Elizur Wright, the former had then in his possession the original document by which your first anti-slavery society was formed, and signed by Benjitionists who were there struggling against wind and tide, my mission would be crowned with the highest success. One day as I was dining at the house of Thomas Fowell Buxton, The successor of Wilberforce in Parliament. in London, our conversation naturally turned upon the state of the abolition question in the United States. very obstacle in his path, arising from his transatlantic origin. As to his personal safety in New England, I did not think there would be any hazard. . . . Mr. Buxton pleasantly remarked, that, if I thought they Lectures of Geo. Thompson, p. XIV. could obtain a hearing at the North, we might have not only Mr. Thompson, but