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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 2 : the Irish address.—1842 . (search)
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 6 : third mission to England .—1846 . (search)
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 10 : the Rynders Mob .—1850 . (search)
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 11 : George Thompson , M. P.—1851 . (search)
Chapter 10: the religious side
Whittier, as has already been seen, was born and brought up in the Society of Friends, of which he always remained a faithful member.
In trying to solve the problem, how far he felt himself strictly bound by the usages of his Society, the following anecdote, as told by Mr. Pickard, is suggestive.
On the night before the burning of Pennsylvania Hall in 1838, in Philadelphia, as an antislavery headquarters, there occurred the marriage of Angelina Grimke to Theodore D. Weld, both being afterwards prominent antislavery reformers.
Miss Grimke was a South Carolina Quakeress, who had liberated her own slaves, and was thenceforward known far and wide as an antislavery lecturer, but her proposed husband was not a Quaker.
At the time of her wedding, Whittier, who then edited the Freeman, was invited to attend; but as she was marrying out of society, he did not think it fitting that he should be present at the ceremony.
He nevertheless reconciled it with
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 6 : Law School .—September , 1831 , to December , 1833 .—Age, 20 -22 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8 : early professional life.—September , 1834 , to December , 1837 .—Age, 23 -26 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14 : first weeks in London .—June and July , 1838 .—Age, 27 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 16 : events at home.—Letters of friends.—December , 1837 , to March , 1839 .—Age 26 -28 . (search)