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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 5 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 2 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
ected President of the Mass. A. S. Society in 1835. (unknown even to the abolition friends generally), and thither we went to see him. Found him in good health and spirits. After mutual gratulations and a rapid conversation, though brief, I said, Give me a sheet of paper, ink and a pen, for I must not fail to send a line to my anxious wife by to-night's mail. Just at Henry Benson. that moment, Henry and friend Burleigh burst into the room, Catherine M. Sullivan. Mary Parker. and then Mrs. Grew, Miss Sullivan, and Miss Parker. What a collection of raving fanatics and dangerous incendiaries! A happy meeting this! I have left them all below, for a few moments, to scribble these few imperfect and scarcely legible lines, which Henry will take to the post-office immediately. Now, my dear wife, disburden your mind of uneasiness as much as possible, on my account. Be assured I will not needlessly run into danger, but shall use all proper precaution for my safety. I feel excell
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 7: the World's Convention.—1840. (search)
y not to be welcomed with honor, not to be put in the seats of dignity? He could not doubt the adoption of Mr. Phillips's motion. The Rev. J. Burnet, a leader among the Dissenters, entreated the Convention to be calm. He had a great respect for ladies—he continued, in his condescending way; but we must put an English interpretation on English phraseology. The female delegates excluded were placed on a level with their own wives and daughters—an ingenious perversion of the truth. The Rev. Henry Grew, one of the Pennsylvania delegates, confessed that the admission of females to take a part in the Convention did not accord with his views of propriety. The Rev. Nathaniel Colver asserted that a large portion of the American abolitionists thought as the English did on this subject. Mr. Stacey proposed, as a substitute for Mr. Phillips's motion: That this Convention, upon a question arising as to the admission of females appointed as delegates from America to take their seats in this