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Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Dedication (search)
Dedication To William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. a son worthy of his father
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Author's note (search)
Author's note The facts relating to the life of Garrison and the anti-slavery struggle recited in this volume were gathered from the monumental work, William Lloyd Garrison, The Story of His Life Told by His Children (Four Volumes, Octavo, Houghton, Miffin and Company, Boston, Mass.), a fascinating book which should be foundWilliam Lloyd Garrison, The Story of His Life Told by His Children (Four Volumes, Octavo, Houghton, Miffin and Company, Boston, Mass.), a fascinating book which should be found upon the shelves of every public library in America. From lips that Sinai's trumpet blew We heard a tender under-song; Thy very wrath from pity grew, From love of man thy hate of wrong. Whittier, To Garrison. hildren (Four Volumes, Octavo, Houghton, Miffin and Company, Boston, Mass.), a fascinating book which should be found upon the shelves of every public library in America. From lips that Sinai's trumpet blew We heard a tender under-song; Thy very wrath from pity grew, From love of man thy hate of wrong. Whittier, To Garrison.
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 1: the Liberator (search)
there the freedom of a race began. Lowell, To Garrison. Oliver Johnson gives a graphic descriptihe eaves of Merchants' Hall, Boston, in which Garrison printed the early numbers of his Liberator inday at the manual labor of their enterprise. Garrison was at this time only six-and-twenty, and he Northerner as well as of Southerner? William Lloyd Garrison was born at Newburyport, Massachusettsnd induced him to seek further education. As Garrison's venture at home was not sufficiently succes8, he happened to board at the house in which Garrison was living, and the latter was much impressedd inspired one more powerful than they were. Garrison was at the meeting, and was scandalized at th of the system which rendered them possible. Garrison's management of the new paper was most successuade him to join him in editing the Genius. Garrison did not hesitate for a moment to follow his fd unconditional emancipation. Until recently Garrison had believed in the gradual freeing of the sl[10 more...]
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 2: the Boston mob (search)
s. In America it soon became clear, owing to Garrison's exposure of it, that colonization meant thedies and gentlemen to be present to welcome Mr. Garrison, the black advocate of emancipation from Am increase the number of his associates. When Garrison reached Boston, he found that there, too, cirn and although all pandemonium was let loose, Garrison became only more confident and determined. Frth, the influence and standing. Garrison! Garrison! was now the cry. We must have Garrison! OuGarrison! Out with him! Lynch him! The mob demanded that the antislavery society signboard be removed. The maedily torn to pieces. The mayor now besought Garrison to escape by the rear of the building, and thh the crowd, in which it was evident now that Garrison had some sympathizers, to the door of the neiorses and on the rioters, and by some miracle Garrison was deposited at the jail in safety and lockerove of the mob to put down such agitators as Garrison and those like him. The editor of the New En[15 more...]
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 3: non-resistance, dissensions (search)
retra. Horace, Odes, 1.22. Any account of Garrison which failed to give due emphasis to his beliof war was much agitated about this time, and Garrison contended that if peace was invariably incumbegates met in September, 1838, at Boston, and Garrison as usual dominated the deliberations, and dre This greater cause (an admission indeed for Garrison) held its own for some years. The conventionkindled against them the just indignation of Garrison and many of his followers. They retorted thasensions. They continued for many years, but Garrison stood to his guns without flinching, and in to failed to vote was a traitor to the cause. Garrison, however, had conscientious scruples against with men in conventions and committee work? Garrison stoutly upheld their right on all occasions; seat among the spectators in the gallery. Garrison's policy against slavery was chiefly directedolidate anti-slavery opinion. Another aim of Garrison's was to persuade England to buy her cotton
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 4: Constitution and conscience (search)
ld do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. Garrison never allowed the Constitutional argument to obscure the moral obligation. He frankly acknowllined to believe that the Southerners must have had more respect for the outspoken anathemas of Garrison than for the truckling subserviency of time-serving politicians and tradesmen. The nonresistanThe blasphemy of wrong. We may readily imagine the frame of mind in which these events left Garrison. At the 4th of July celebration of the Abolitionists at Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1854, hefrom Anglo-Saxon blood; Frederick Douglass, of Rochester, black-man, from African blood; William Lloyd Garrison, of Boston, mulattoman, mixed race; Wendell Phillips, of Boston, white-man, merely from blood. He added that Garrison surpasses Robespierre and his associates, and borrowing his language apparently from a future generation, calls the members of the society Abolitionists, socialists, Sa
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 5: the Civil war (search)
will subsisting between persons. Erasmus. Garrison's doctrine of non-resistance was put to the tellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow. Garrison expressed his emphatic dissent from this assen as Dr. Leonard Bacon and Dr. Storrs, called Garrison an infidel of the most degraded class! When at last war became inevitable, Garrison deplored the martial spirit of many of the Abolitionists. , Peter and John. But these principles of Garrison did not prevent him, whenever war was actuallnd servility of a Southern slave plantation. Garrison applied these rules to the Civil War, and gavin their respective military districts, still Garrison saw deeper than most of his fellow reformers,ten to that in Charleston streets! exclaimed Garrison, and they both broke into tears. The Negroeslaring the abolition of slavery, was assured, Garrison made up his mind to bring the Liberator to a their total lack of influence proved how wise Garrison's action had been. He set up the last paragr[3 more...]
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 6: the labor question (search)
wer Nor in a tyrant's presence cower, But all to Manhood's stature tower By equal birth! William Lloyd Garrison, The triumph of freedom. Garrison lived for thirteen years after the close of the waGarrison lived for thirteen years after the close of the war, and he continued to take an active interest in the freedmen, in woman's rights, in temperance, free trade and other reforms. He protested against the exclusion of the Chinese from America, believinsciencea sake, and was duly cast into prison. It is not without regret that we must record Garrison's insensibility to the claims of the working classes outside the ranks of the slaves. Their co the people. In the same strain might a Southern planter have answered Lundy in the twenties! Garrison was only a fallible mortal after all, but surely he had already deserved well enough of his kinthe slave, and placed all Abolitionists under lasting obligations. In 1863 a friend writing to Garrison from England says: The working classes also have proved to be sound to the core, wherever
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 7: Garrison the prophet (search)
Chapter 7: Garrison the prophet Rejoice, and be exceeding glad, . . . for so persecuted theyre you. St. Matthew, v:12. The career of Garrison is in many ways typical of that class of men he church which blessed it. Public opinion in Garrison's time, and to a lesser degree to-day also, w any meaning, they stand for freedom; and yet Garrison found them approving of military coercion, waecuted the prophets which were before him. Garrison was a prophet, too, in the character of his wrive to thrive together. And in private life Garrison was all kindliness, devoted to his wife and che Puritan ideals were lost for good and all. Garrison was a Puritan to the end, and one of the bestuld be impossible to the noblest type of man. Garrison would at any moment have given his life and d And the last mark of prophethood was also Garrison's. Despised and rejected of men during the acadvice. The man who loses his life finds it. Garrison might have become a leading editor, or author[1 more...]
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 8: Garrison the non-resistant (search)
It is not without reason that I am treating Garrison as primarily a non-resistant, and only secondtion of the times might have forced upon him. Garrison recognized fully the profounder claims of nonnd despised. Sam Adams was not respectable. Garrison was an infidel agitator. And to-day the antirialists, the logical successors of Adams and Garrison in claiming freedom for all, are treated withcident in the grand march toward freedom, and Garrison saw the wider aspects of his faith. He was ontent with environment is a motive power, and Garrison's instinctive aversion to coercion was a new rear upon them merely adds to the confusion. Garrison and Draco could not have argued intelligibly the prophet; and this audience was lacking to Garrison. He would have liked to be a leader to guide. But was this non-resistance principle of Garrison's a true one? And is there any prospect thatty. And the non-resistant is no weakling. Garrison himself is proof enough of that. The very re[5 more...]
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