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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 9 (search)
em in the September following. He planted himself at Lowell, La Salle county, gathered his offspring about him, purchased a printing-office, and renewed the issues of his Genius. But in August, 1839, he was attacked by a prevailing fever, of which he died on the 22d of that month, in the 51st year of his age. Thus closed the record of one of the most heroic, devoted, unselfish, courageous lives, that has ever been lived on this continent. Condensed from the Life of Benjamin Lundy, by Thomas Earle. William Lloyd Garrison, born in obscurity and indigence, at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1805, and educated a printer, after having tried his boyish hand at shoe-making, wood-sawing, and cabinet-making, started The Free Press, in his native place, directly upon attaining his majority; but Newburyport was even then a slow old town, and his enterprise soon proved unsuccessful. He migrated to Boston, worked a few months as a journeyman printer, and then became editor of The National
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 11 (search)
tertained in any way whatever. On this proposition, the votes were — Yeas 114; Nays 108--several Northern Democrats and some Southern Whigs voting with all the Northern Whigs in the minority. The members from the Free States, twenty-eight in all (all Democrats but Proffit, a Tylerized Whig), who voted for this resolve, were as follows: Maine.--Virgil D. Parris, Albert Smith.--New Hampshire.--Charles G. Atherton, Edmund Burke, Ira A. Eastman, Tristram Shaw.--New York.--Nehemiah II. Earle, John Fine, Nathaniel Jones, Gouverneur Kemble, James de la Montanya, John H. Prentiss, Theron R. Strong. Pennsylvania.--John Davis, Joseph Fornance, James Gerry, George McCullough, David Petriken, William S. Ramsay. Ohio.--D. P. Leadbetter, William Medill, Isaac Parrish, George Sweeney, Jonathan Taylor, John B. Weller. Indiana.--John Davis, George H. Proffit.--Illinois.--John Reynolds. In a little more than ten years after this, Congress prohibited the Slave-Trade in the District; and,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ch, 1839 Rev. Zerah Colburn died at Norwich, Vt., aged thirty-five......March 2, 1839......[A mathematical prodigy.] Twenty-fifth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1839 L'Amistad ( Friendship ) is captured off Montauk Point by the United States brig Washington, Lieutenant Geding commanding......Aug. 29, 1839 Daguerreotypes first taken in the United States by Prof. J. W. Draper......1839 Liberty party, in convention at Warsaw, N. Y., nominates James G. Birney for President and Thomas Earle, of Pennsylvania, for Vice-President......Nov. 13, 1839 [This was the first appearance of a national anti-slavery party, and although Mr. Birney declined the nomination, it polled over 7,000 votes.] Twenty-sixth Congress, first session, assembles......Dec. 2-16, 1839 Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, Whig, elected speaker of the House on the eleventh ballot, receiving 119 votes out of 232. Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pa.......Dec. 4, 1839 [First ballot, Clay, 10
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)
better) composed by way of epitaph. Mr. Garrison expressed his desire to carry out a promise made to Lundy in Baltimore, to write his biography in case he survived; Lundy had made a similar engagement, of a mutual kind, with his friend Thomas Hoge, of Nashville, whose death was announced to him in April, 1835, when nearing Natchez ( Life, p. 178). and this promise he would no doubt have kept as a peculiar duty, if Lundy's relatives had been favorably disposed. As it was, they chose Thomas Earle, whose very inadequate and inaccurate performance—the only Life of Lundy yet written—was published in Philadelphia in 1847. The suggestion of the Emancipator, that any materials for the purpose should be sent to Mr. Garrison (Lib. 9.206), was speedily superseded by Joseph Lundy, the father's, call for aid of this kind (Lib. 10.23), and his curious letter of Jan. 16, 1840, to Mr. Garrison, intimating the family distrust of the latter as an impartial biographer (Lib. 10.46). Whatever else
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)
Chapter 6: the schism.—1840. The nomination of Birney and Earle is finally effected in a pseudo-national A. S. Convention at Albany. The New York State A. S. Society becomes disorganized, and the Executive Committee of the American Society in their behalf for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the United States!—namely, James G. Birney, of Kentucky, and Thomas Earle, of Pennsylvania! Acceptance by these candidates was delayed till after the May meeting of the American A. S. Sociey. I rather think it will be a stormy time if they come. Whittier is here, and will be here at the meeting. . . . Thomas Earle informed me and Bradburn, who is here, Geo. Bradburn. last night, that he should not accept the nomination unless thed for expenses incurred; and a committee, consisting of E. G. Loring, N. P. Rogers, J. S. Gibbons, Nathan Winslow, and Thomas Earle, was appointed to negotiate for that end. The terms demanded being too onerous, there was nothing left for the America
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)
port (1840), 334; resolutions on Fitch's recantation, 335, on proslavery church and clergy, 337, 338, 350, on pro-slavery Friends, 338, on the irrepressible conflict, 338; protest against Albany Convention, 2.341; on the nomination of Birney and Earle, 342; warning of schism at N. Y., 344; describes N. E. delegation, 346, part at annual meeting, 348, 350, 351; delegate to World's Convention, 351, 353, describes its basis, 352, anticipates exclusion of women, 353, 357, 360, 362, certifies femal Child, 418; resumes Genius, 2: 65, 105; projected trip to Texas, 105, 322; publishes Nat. Enquirer, 105, 323, retires, 323, approves Clerical Appeal, 322; loss by burning of Penn. Hall, 217; alienation from G., 322, death, 321; Life written by T. Earle, 323, and sketch by G., 324; resolutions Mass. A. S. S., 324, 335.— Letters to G., 1.99, 193; from A. Tappan, 1.190, G., 1.196. Son of Lundy, Joseph, 2.323. Lunt, George [1803-1885], State senator of Mass., 2.95; bullies abolitionists at a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
en there was a settled anxiety almost hopelessness; nothing seemed to have been gained and nobody could forebode whether the war would last one year or ten. Now there is such a glare of victory that we only count the months or perhaps weeks until Richmond and New Orleans shall have submitted. All the great load of anxiety seems to have been lifted in one instant from the public mind. The difficulty is, that with it goes the sense of immediate responsibility to the slaves. March 26 Thomas Earle, a friend of ours, with whom I went to the Adirondack a few years ago, is a soldier in the Twenty-Fifth Regiment and now home on furlough. He was here on Sunday and gave Mary a good account of everything. On the day of the battle he put Conway's book The rejected Stone over his heart, another book the other side, and his tin plate in the middle. Some of the others laughed at him, but a rifle ball struck him just over the heart, glanced from Conway's book and out again without hurting
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)
nfirmed what I said. This was an unexpected damper. Garrison dilated his nostrils like a war-horse, and snuffed indignation at us. If the Boston friends were unwilling to take the trouble and responsibility, then there was nothing more to be said; we must try to get along as well as we could in the old way, etc. Any unwillingness to take trouble and responsibility was of course disclaimed, but the necessity of their acting on their own ideas of what was best affirmed. At this crisis, Thomas Earle of Philadelphia proposed, as something that would combine efficiency with the preservation of our old front to the enemy, that a quorum of the Committee should be appointed in Boston, and the business done there. This was, in effect, to acknowledge and confirm the leadership of the Mass. Board (which, with all due modesty be it said, gives the tone to the anti-slavery of the country) (Ms. Jan. 30, 1844, E. Quincy to R. D. Webb.) This seemed to satisfy everybody and was adopted. Th
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)
Lib. 14.19. S. character—a character which Mr. A. has always, and very emphatically in his last speech, disclaimed. Thomas Earle of Lib. 13.206. Philadelphia (who is about as rabid a Democrat as Child is a Ante, 2.343. Whig, though with more com of the temperance, as lecturer and journalist (Lib. 27: 92). etc., from the cause East; Arnold Buffum, from the West; Thomas Earle, with C. C. Burleigh and J. M. McKim, editors of the Pennsylvania Freeman, and Thomas S. Cavender of Philadelphia; andhest defensible ground against the enemy. 7. It is objected, that this is precisely the course which all Protest of T. Earle and A. Buffum. the crafty advocates of slavery would wish us to pursue. This is empty assertion—and the facts that havearvellously plain that it is hard not to embrace it. What straits its opposers are reduced to you will see by Earle's Thomas Earle. articles in the Standard, The no-voting theory, signed E., and Gerrit Smith's tract, which you will find at Lib. 14:
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 7: first Western tour.—1847. (search)
E. Penn. A. S. S. hundred of our friends from Philadelphia came up in the cars, and the meetings were uniformly crowded by an array of men and women who, for thorough-going anti-slavery spirit and solidity of character, are not surpassed by any in the world. Douglass arrived on the second day, and was justly the lion Aug. 5. of the occasion, though a considerable number participated in Lib. 17.137. the discussions; our friend Lucretia Mott speaking with excellent propriety and effect. Thomas Earle was present to annoy us, as usual. Our meetings were not molested in any manner, excepting one evening when Douglass and I held a meeting after dark, when a few panes of glass were broken by some rowdy boys while D. was speaking. It was a grand meeting, nevertheless, and the house crowded with a noble auditory to the end. The meetings will have a powerful effect in the prosecution of our cause for the coming year. It was worth a trip from Boston to Norristown merely to look at those w
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