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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
ew subscribers, and perhaps add a few more to your list. In this review Mr. Garrison took to himself the attack Lib. 7.133. really levelled at the temporary editor of the Liberator, whose conduct of the paper in his absence he now explicitly endorsed. The selection of another medium than the Liberator for the publication of the Appeal, he regarded as an impeachment far more offensive than the Appeal itself. As for that document, it would be welcomed by the Tracys, by Leonard Bacon, Asa Cummings, and Wilbur Fisk, President of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., a conspicuous clerical apologist for slavery, an aggressive Colonizationist, and one of the most abusive and malignant opponents of George Thompson (Lib. 5: 45, 66, 77; 7.95). and by the religious (Congregational) press generally, for it was their thunder. It consisted of the commonest and most flippant objections to the cause. So far as related to its defence of the two slandered pro-slavery clergymen, neither ha
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 8: the Chardon-Street Convention.—1840. (search)
osed by the Liberty Party, professedly because, as an anti-slavery man, he deemed it wiser to vote for Harrison than for Birney. Ante, p. 311. More extraordinary efforts to defeat him could not have been made if he had been an avowed apologist for slavery: New Organization, said Mr. Garrison, had mustered as Lib. 11.11. many clerical politicians as possible to harangue the people of the Tenth District, in opposition to the claims of Mr. Borden. . . . There were Rev. Messrs. Torrey, Cummings, Lee, Phelps, Denison, Leavitt,--all in a row! We believe the business of a politician to be a very poor and paltry one, and the less a minister of the gospel has to do with it, the better. Is there one man in the United States—in the whole world who can honestly and truly affirm, before God, that by becoming a politician he has improved his manners or morals, his head or his heart, or has elevated the tone of his piety, or felt new emotions of spiritual life? If so, we have yet to see t
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
bsent, 499; on the glittering generalities of Declaration of Ind., 1.141. Christian Examiner (Boston), 1.220. Christian Mirror (Portland, Me.), edited by Asa Cummings: on G.'s tyranny, 2.140, on the movement against him, 297, on male and female committees, 221. Christian Monitor, 1.304. Christian Register, conducted bycoadjutors, 2.367; death and G.'s tribute, 366.—Letters to A. Buffum, 1.328, Clarkson, 1.363; G., 1.444. Cross, John, Rev., 2.210. Crowl, Lyman, 2.316. Cummings, Asa, Rev. [1790-1856], welcomes Clerical Appeal, 2.139; opposes Borden's reelection, 437. Curran, John Philpot [1750-1817], 1.141. Curtis, Benjamin Robbins [180ant moralists, 2.130, 135; Mass. Pastoral Letter, 133-136, 198.—See also J. S. C. Abbott, N. Adams, G. Allen, L. Bacon, L. Beecher, G. W. Blagden, H. Bushnell, A. Cummings, C. G. Finney, C. Fitch, R. B. Hall, J. Le Bosquet, N. Lord, A. A. Phelps, G. Shepherd, C. B. Storrs, M. Stuart, M. Thacher, C. T. Torrey, J. H. Towne, J. Tracy