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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
ed by Mrs. Child's Appeal, 77; her imagination of him in the spiritual world, 144. Channing, William H., 188, 257. Chicago Tribune has biographical sketch of Mrs. Child, 201. Chapman, Maria Weston, 19, 147. Child, letter to a, 36. Child, David Lee, biographical sketch of, VIII.; first meet Miss Francis, 8; his marriage, 10: letters to, from his wife, 10, 82, 86, 88, 96; his domestic happiness, XVI.; his death, XIX,, 229; Mrs. Child's reminiscences of, XVI. Child, Lydia Maria, publiMrs. Child's reminiscences of, XVI. Child, Lydia Maria, publishes her Appeal in behalf of the colored people, IX.; her consequent unpopularity, IX.; an advocate of individual freedom, 12; describes pro-slavery excitement in New York, 15; indifference to literary success, 21; on the prejudice against color among Friends, 23; converses with Dr. Channing on the anti-slavery movement, 24; hears Angelina Grimke speak, 26; life in Northampton, 29-41 ; discussions with slave-holders, 30; abusive letters to, from Southerners, 41; edits the Standard, in New York,
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 4: editorial Experiments.—1826-1828. (search)
y, he took refuge at first with a printer named Bennett, who had some Thomas H. Bennett. time previously printed a translation of Cicero's Orations in Mr. Allen's office, and who was now printing the Massachusetts Weekly Journal, of which David Lee Child A graduate of Harvard College, in the class of 1817; an able lawyer and an active politician, when induced to undertake the publication of the Journal as a Whig paper. After the failure of that enterprise, he did not long continue in practice at the bar. He was a forcible and prolific writer, and a man of undaunted courage. Mr. Child was married in 1828 to Miss Lydia Maria Francis. (See Letters of L. Maria Child, p. VIII. Boston, 1883.) was the editor. Bennett kept a boarding-house in Scott Court, leading from Union Street, and kindly allowed his young friend to remain with him until he could obtain work and the means to pay his board,—no easy matter at first, for business was dull and many were out of employment. Mr. Gar
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 7: Baltimore jail, and After.—1830. (search)
published an antislavery pamphlet, The selling of Joseph; a memorial, in 1700 (reprinted in Williams's History of the negro race in America, 1: 210). (For his descent from Judge Sewall, see Titcomb's Early New England people, pp. 217-223.) Mr. May (who was born in 1797, and hence was eight years Mr. Garrison's senior) was a son of Col. Joseph May, of Boston, a highly respected merchant, and both he and his cousin Mr. Sewall graduated from Harvard College in 1817, in the same class with David Lee Child, George Bancroft, George B. Emerson, Caleb Cushing, Samuel A. Eliot, Stephen Salisbury, Stephen H. Tyng, and Robert F. Wallcut. It is worthy of note that Mr. May preached his first sermon in December, 1820, on the Sunday following the delivery of Daniel Webster's Plymouth Rock oration, and was so impressed by the latter's fervid appeal to the ministry to denounce the slave-trade that he read the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah in his morning service. Five years later he was interested
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 8: the Liberator—1831. (search)
rolina, the latter from the Massachusetts Journal and Tribune, whose opinion was reinforced by the fact that the editor and writer of the article in question, David Lee Child, My husband was anti-slavery, wrote Mrs. Child in 1867, and it [slavery] was the theme of many of our conversations while Garrison was in prison ( Letters ofMrs. Child in 1867, and it [slavery] was the theme of many of our conversations while Garrison was in prison ( Letters of L. M. Child, p. 195). was a lawyer. His own comments follow in Lib. 1.9; ante, p. 196. a later number. Still a little space remains on the second page, and this shall be filled by verses signed G——n, but written who knows when or where amid all the distractions of the past six months? Universal emancipation. Though disly conversation on the friends and the foes of human freedom. His office was a rendezvous to which came men of all grades and professions—fellow-editors like David Lee Child, Massachusetts Journal and Tribune, Boston; John G. Whittier, New-England Weekly Review, Hartford, as George D. Prentice's successor; William J. Snelling, <
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
meeting was held at the same place, with ten present, Namely, according to the records, David Lee Child, Ellis Gray Loring, Isaac Child, W. L. Garrison, Robert Bernard Hall, John Cutts Smith, Olinson, Isaac Knapp, Joshua Coffin, and Samuel E. Sewall. and, after considerable discussion, David Lee Child, Samuel E. Sewall, William Lloyd Garrison, Ellis Gray Loring, and Oliver Johnson were appoilavery. But the spirits of the little company rose superior to all external circumstances. Mr. Child presided, and the preamble, as drawn by Mr. Snelling, was read as follows: We, the undersiwas again the cause of much earnest discussion without unanimity Lib. 5.3. being reached; Messrs. Child, Loring and Sewall withholding their signatures from the perfected instrument. Their scrue annual meeting in January, 1833, to succeed Mr. Garrison as Corresponding Secretary, while Messrs. Child and Loring were elected Counsellors. Mr. Sewall, however, only became a life member (by the
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)
e connection, and exhibiting in the process his Lib. 4.206, 207. characteristic singleness of moral purpose and cloudiness of logic. We remark, further, the first appearance in the anti-slavery ranks of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, of Plymouth, N. H., already seeming a warm personal friend of Lib. 4.38. Mr. Garrison, and vouched for by the latter as an able lawyer and an enlightened Christian; Rogers was corresponding secretary of the local anti-slavery society, and, together with D. L. Child and S. E. Sewall, one of the trustees of the Noyes Academy at Canaan. N. H., which was opened in the fall of 1834 to colored youth on equal terms with white (Lib. 4.38, 169). of Rogers's neighbor, John Farmer, the antiquarian; of Farmer's Lib. 4.175. constant correspondent in Boston, Francis Jackson; Francis Jackson was born in Newton, Mass., in 1789, and became the historian of that town. His father, Timothy Jackson, was a minute-man who joined in the pursuit of the retreating Br
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 2: the Irish address.—1842. (search)
ccompany me. I intend, if I can, to add Wendell Phillips to our company. So, you may make your arrangements, at your leisure, for at least one incendiary meeting in your place. Do not forget to suggest to my friend Child the importance of D. L. Child, as editor of the Standard. preparing, without delay, a stirring Address to the friends of the American Anti-Slavery Society, urging them to take prompt and effectual measures to insure a full attendance at the approaching anniversary, from al or (as commonly) Lib. 12.67. laid upon the table. Disunion was in the air. The first petition to Congress had been followed by others—from Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts again (this last, Lib. 12.38, 49, 50, 77, 81. most elaborate, as David Lee Child's compositions were wont to be, and able). But meantime the conspiracy for the annexation of Texas began to rear its head anew. Southern State legislatures adopted resolves in favor of Lib. 12.49. it which met with a willing reception in C
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 3: the covenant with death.—1843. (search)
r rest, and the way he rests himself is to lecture Lib. 13.111, 117, 118. every night in the neighboring towns, and on Sundays in Northampton in the open air! D. L. Child, however, who took Boston in his way to New York to take the Standard, reports that he Lib. 13.123. looks well and seems well, with the exception of his enemy you my concluding article on Leavitt, See the whole series of articles, discussing anew the embezzlement of the Emancipator, in which Quincy had the help of D. L. Child, and compelled notice at the hands of Leavitt, Torrey, Elizur Wright, and Lewis Tappan (Lib. 13: 165, 169, 170, 171, 174, 179, 185, 201). The Whig papers eagerln was received with a burst of applause. The question of who should be editor of the Standard was also one of great importance. Great opposition was made to David Lee Child on account of his bias towards Whiggery, but the matter was referred to the Executive Committee to do the best they could in the premises. The meeting went o
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 4: no union with slaveholders!—1844. (search)
ams occupied a good deal of time, Videlicet, as a topic, not in person. and D. L. Child made an unfortunate show of zeal in defending his A. Lib. 14.19. S. characte majority, after vigorous opposition from all quarters—Ellis Gray Loring, David Lee Child, Joseph Southwick, Abner Sanger, William A. White, Of Watertown, Mass.n, and Thomas S. Cavender of Philadelphia; and James S. Gibbons of New York. Mr. Child, in accordance with a notice already given, withdrew from the editorship of tin our Union is our injustice to our colored brethren. They have Protest of D. L. Child, E. G. Loring, J. Southwick, J. S. Gibbons, etc. made a covenant with death t walk therein. Some of our friends who look on this revolutionary step as D. L. Child, E. G. Loring; ante, 1.279. impracticable were as strongly persuaded, at thedisunion in case Texas were annexed, Joshua Leavitt, in Ms. Sept. 17, 1844, D. L. Child to W. L. G. Lib. 14.81; cf. 17.14. precious paper, the Boston Morning Chroni
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 8: the Anti-Sabbath Convention.—1848. (search)
oke were quite as disagreeable—so that I was not sorry when I arrived at the depot. There I met with our old friend David Lee Child, whom I had not seen for a long time, and the pleasure at meeting was mutual. There is to be a Free Soil Convention in this town next week; and to-morrow Mr. Child begins a short tour through the county, for the purpose of addressing the people, and urging upon them the importance of sending delegates to the meeting. Bro. George drove down to the depot a G. W. Benson. few minutes after my arrival, and carried me and my baggage, with Mr. Child and Mrs. Hammond Eliza P. Hammond, formerly of New Ipswich, N. H., where her husband, an amateur portrait painter, had had Mr. Garrison for a sitter in January, actively as possible. Speaking of Mrs. Chapman's visit to Europe, for educational purposes in regard to her children, Mr. Child expressed much surprise and wonder at her choice, and said that he had supposed there was not steam power enough to dra
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