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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 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 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
in opposition to the inalienable rights of their colored countrymen, pause before it is too late—their names and their memories will be covered with eternal infamy. No fiction, no sophistry, can hide the fact from the intelligence of an impartial posterity, that the contemplated meeting is a meeting to take sides with the slaveholder, and against his victim—to palliate and countenance a bloody despotism, and to plant a dagger in the bosom of Liberty! Perilous times had surely come. Simeon Jocelyn, just arrived on August 17 at New Haven from New York, Ms. to W. L. G. reported a horrible state of things in the latter city. There would be no safety there for Thompson—no, nor even in New Haven, thronged with Southerners attending the Yale Commencement; that very day Thompson had taken the stage from New Haven for Boston via Hartford, where (it was rumored) a mob had burnt the colored people's church the day before; Thompson, Garrison, the Tappans, were all marked for assassinatio<