Browsing named entities in Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1. You can also browse the collection for Edward Everett or search for Edward Everett in all documents.

Your search returned 5 results in 3 document sections:

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)
clearness and precision which he thus acquired was of great value to him then and in subsequent years. Indeed, a large part of the manual work on the paper was done by him, a boy being his only assistant. He discussed a variety of matters editorially, but they were chiefly of a political character, and his attention had not yet been directed to questions of reform. He copied, without editorial comment or reprobation, in his second number, Free Press, Mar. 29, 1826. that portion of Edward Everett's speech in Congress wherein the Massachusetts clergyman declared, that there was no cause in which he would sooner buckle a knapsack to his back, and put a musket to his shoulder, than the suppression of a servile insurrection at the South, and quoted the New Testament (Slaves, obey your Masters!) in defence and justification of slavery. A few weeks later, however, he commended to his readers Ibid., May 18, 1826. a poem on Africa, just published and for sale at the local bookstores,
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)
ar opened (amid the gratifying enactment of panic legislation in both sections concerning the colored population, bond and free) with its annual meeting in Washington, at which letters were read from Marshall and Madison, and speeches made by Edward Everett— the same benevolent gentleman who, a few years since, Lib. 2.15; 6.175; ante, p. 64. declared on the floor of Congress that, in the event of a negro rebellion at the South, he would promptly put on his knapsack and shoulder his musket to the slaves down; and by the Rev. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven, whose theme was the strictly benevolent character of the Society, and who had already elsewhere publicly pledged the Vermont and Connecticut militia to the same noble mission which Mr. Everett assumed for himself. Mr. Bacon alluded pointedly to Mr. Garrison as one of those men whom nature has endowed with such talents as equip a demagogue, and with whom it seems an object worth ambition to lead the free people of color, and to re
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
estion more seriously pondered than in Boston, where the Atlas at once called for a Lib. 5.130. meeting in the same Faneuil Hall that had been denied the abolitionists, and urged that Webster, Otis, Adams, Story, Sprague, Austin, Choate, and Everett should vindicate the fair fame of our city. One thus invited to declare his sentiments against men accused of preparing a civil and servile war in the name of philanthropy, John Quincy Adams, wrote as follows in his diary: August 11, 1835.e Southern view, that the case was analogous to international interference. To all this they [the abolitionists] have the temerity to answer that their construction of the Constitution is the same with that of Mr. Webster Webster, Choate and Everett were conspicuously absent from the Faneuil Hall meeting (Lib. 5.142). and other jurists: that they aim at abolition only with the consent of the slaveholding States. Then, why don't they go South to present their appeals? To send them through