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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 1: no union with non-slaveholders!—1861. (search)
t the chief promoter of the Fugitive Slave Law should himself be James M. Mason. incarcerated in a Boston fort seemed a rare bit of poetic justice, and it was natural that Mr. Phillips's allusion to it in his lecture (on The War) at New York, in Dec. 19. December, should be rapturously applauded. The lecture itself occupied seven columns of the Liberator, and is referred Lib. 31.206. to in the following letter from Mr. Garrison to Oliver Johnson: You will see in the Liberator, this w at Washington, both write to me in discouraging tones as to the prospects before us. The Administration has neither pluck nor definite purpose. What tremendous events will hinge upon an actual war with England! Mss. G. S., Dec. 23, 1861; C. S., Dec. 22. In the Liberator for December 13, the passage from John Quincy Adams on the iniquity of the three-fifths representation clause in the Constitution, which had so long stood at the head of the first page (replaced for a time by a correspond
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 6: end of the Liberator.—1865. (search)
ped to devote the last three weeks of the year wholly to the Liberator, but he had scarcely reached Boston before he was summoned to New York to attend a committee Dec. 15. meeting of the American Freedman's Aid Commission; and three days later he was compelled to fulfil an engagement at Philadelphia, for a lecture at the Academy of Music. Even while he was speaking, the telegraph wires Dec. 18. were bearing to every part of the land the official proclamation of Secretary Seward, issued that day, announcing the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, and its consequent incorporation as a part of the Constitution. Hurrying back to Boston, the editor of sing-stick and himself set up the proclamation for insertion in the number just going to press,—the last issue but one of the paper,—and to it appended this paean: Dec. 22. With our own hands we have put in type this unspeakably Lib. 35.202. cheering and important official announcement that, at last, the old covenant with d
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 7: the National Testimonial.—1866. (search)
truck Ms. June 6, 1866, W. L. G. to S. J. May. heavily on his right arm and shoulder. This accident caused him many months of suffering, and effectually disabled him from any literary or other work for the rest of the year. It supplied, too, a sufficient reason for his not attempting a task to which he was strongly urged by his friends, namely, the preparation of a History of the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States. While he was at work on the last number of the Liberator, he had Dec. 27, 1865. received an earnest request to undertake such a work, from the publishing firm of Ticknor & Fields, who Ms. July 3, 1866. subsequently made a very liberal proposition to that end. Mr. Garrison provisionally accepted it, but he had many Ms. July 5. doubts and misgivings on the subject, and, after two years of alternating resolution and hesitation, he abandoned the idea. The only overt step he took towards it was the hiring of an office in the city, to which the files of 1868. th
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 9: Journalist at large.—1868-1876. (search)
more instances are recorded: W. L. Garrison to Oliver Johnson. Roxbury, Dec. 28, 1873. Ms. Last Friday, I attended the funeral of our old anti-slavery Dec. 26. co-laborer, Charles Lenox Remond, at Greenwood. He had Mass. been wasting in consumption for the last eighteen months. John T. Sargent, Wendell Phillips, and conducted the services. A number of white and colored friends from Salem and Boston were present. Yesterday forenoon, I was present, with many others, at the Dec. 27, 1873. funeral obsequies of our departed friend and aged saint, Sarah M. Grimke, at Hyde Park. We all felt the tenderness of heart Mass. and warm appreciationeparting for Europe. Of Mr. Greeley's course in consenting to stand as the candidate of the Democratic Party, he wrote with great Ind. Sept. 12, Oct. 3, 24, 31, Dec. 15, 1872. plainness and severity, though the opinion of him which he now expressed was one he had long entertained, namely, that the editor of the Tribune was the
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 11: last years.—1877-79. (search)
the numerous lectures and concerts which continued to attract him. An affectionate interchange of letters took place between himself and Whittier in December, Mss. Dec. 18, 20, 1877. when the latter's seventieth birthday was celebrated; and to the many public tributes paid the poet, Mr. Garrison contributed a friendly and critical estimate in blank verse, through the columns of the Boston Literary Dec. 1, 1877. World. A new friendship, which he greatly enjoyed, was formed in the spring of 1878, when he became acquainted, through Mrs. Child, with the gifted sculptress, Miss Anne Whitney of Boston, and was invited by her to sit for his portrait bust. Du opposed by the best. I hope for his defeat. Yours for the triumph of the right, Wm. Lloyd Garrison. In December, Mr. Garrison completed his 73d year, and Dec. 10, 1878. his letters in reply to the congratulations sent him by his absent children betrayed a feeling that his earthly career was approaching its limit, and a c