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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 1: re-formation and Reanimation.—1841. (search)
64), showing the liberalizing effect upon himself, unsuspected at the time, of those ‘memorable interviews and conversations, in the hall, in the lobbies, or around the doors,’ of which Emerson tells ( Lectures and Biographical Sketches, ed. 1884, p. 354). On the appearance of Theodore Parker's epochmaking ordination sermon on ‘The Transient and Permanent in Christianity,’ preached May 19, 1841 (Frothingham's Life of Parker, p. 152, Weiss's Life, 1.165), Garrison said gravely to his friend Johnson, ‘Infidelity, Oliver, infidelity!’ So thought most of the Unitarian clergy; and the denomination first gave it official currency, as at once respectable and conservative doctrine, in 1885 (see the volume, Views of religion, a selection from Parker's sermons). In reviewing, in January, 1842, a volume of religious poetry by Mrs. Sophia L. Little, of Pawtucket, Mr. Garrison said: ‘Whatever goes to exalt the character of the Saviour is at all times valuable; but never more than when, as
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 3: the covenant with death.—1843. (search)
te. I wish he had left the selections to Mrs. Chapman. When Caroline Weston expressed her regrets that certain things were inserted in the volume of his poems by Johnson, he Oliver Johnson. replied, with a smile, Ah, you know there are all sorts of tastes in the world. To which she answered, that was true enough; but when a man Oliver Johnson. replied, with a smile, Ah, you know there are all sorts of tastes in the world. To which she answered, that was true enough; but when a man was collecting his writings in a permanent form, that there was but one kind of taste to be consulted, and that was the best. Both were right. Mr. Garrison's literary ambition, like his poetic talent, was subordinate to his moral purpose in life. Hence, in noticing the appearance of his little volume of Sonnets and other poemt dislocation of the same joint was carried through life. By the end of October the family had returned to Boston, occupying a new house on Pine Street, with Oliver Johnson and his No. 13. wife as welcome co-tenants. The Liberator, all this time, had been supplied editorially by several friends—by Quincy and Mrs. Chapman abov
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 7: first Western tour.—1847. (search)
all uneasiness to the spirit of sectarianism in the Institution. But I must throw down my pen, as the carriage is at the door, to take us to Richfield, where we are to have a large Aug. 28. meeting to-day under the Oberlin tent, which is capable of Lib. 17.185. holding four thousand persons. Salem, Sept. 5, 1847. Sunday evening. Here I am, under the roof of Benj. S. and E. Jones, At this time, and for two years longer, editors of the Anti-Slavery Bugle, being succeeded by Oliver Johnson (Lib. 19: 102). Mr. Jones had a poetic knack, sometimes happily employed in characterization of his antislavery colleagues (ante, p. 197). with a J. Elizabeth Jones. company below stairs singing a variety of songs and hymns— the Cowles[es], from Austinburg—while I am trying to do, what I have in vain sought to do since I was at Oberlin—and that is, to finish this letter. Our meetings at Richfield were eminently successful—five thousand present, and the weather superb. We held six m
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 9: Father Mathew.—1849. (search)
benefit of my family, which a few friends are kindly endeavoring to raise, and of which I have known nothing until recently. Be assured, this fresh token of your friendship, which has been manifested on so many occasions and in so many ways, is more gratefully appreciated than words can express. The movement to raise a house and home fund for Mr. Garrison dated back to the year 1847, when his Western illness emphasized the precarious condition of his family. See (Ms. Dec. 8, 1847) Oliver Johnson's draft of a circular appeal submitted to Francis Jackson. On Jan. 1, 1849, Mr. Jackson, with S. Philbrick and E. G. Loring, executed with Mr. Garrison an indenture and declaration of trust respecting a fund which already amounted to $2289.79 (Ms.). . . . Half of the long letter from which the above extracts are taken, related to the concern felt by Miss Pease and other English friends of the Liberator because of the Bible discussion tolerated in its columns: Ante, p. 227. On
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 12: Kossuth.—1852. (search)
themselves to him through divers mediums, both in his presence and in his absence. Thus it was with the disembodied Rogers, or his impersonator, who, in the same month of September, 1851, sent another message of reconciliation through Ms. Oliver Johnson by a boy medium near Waterloo, N. Y., Nov. (?) 1851. O. Johnson to W. L. G. and who became from that time truly a familiar spirit to Mr. Garrison—sometimes notably, and so consistently as to produce the pleasurable conviction that it was indersonator, who, in the same month of September, 1851, sent another message of reconciliation through Ms. Oliver Johnson by a boy medium near Waterloo, N. Y., Nov. (?) 1851. O. Johnson to W. L. G. and who became from that time truly a familiar spirit to Mr. Garrison—sometimes notably, and so consistently as to produce the pleasurable conviction that it was indeed Rogers who, clothed and in his right mind, sought to atone for his hostile aberration, and to restore the joyous friendship of 18
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 13: the Bible Convention.—1853. (search)
b. 23.95. of securing legislative prohibition of such gatherings in the State of Connecticut, in view of the announcement Proceedings Hartford Bible Convention, p. 371. that another Bible Convention would be held in January, 1854. An excursion to Flushing, Long Island, in August, to take part in the celebration of West India emancipation Aug. 4, 1853; Lib. 23.129. under the management of the New York City Anti-Slavery Society, This organization was consequent upon the transfer of Oliver Johnson from the editorship of the Pennsylvania Freeman to the associate editorship (with S. H. Gay) of the National Anti-Slavery Standard (Lib. 23: 47, 50, [78], 107). broke for a moment Mr. Garrison's summer rest. By the end of the same month, he was on his way to New York to share in an extraordinary series of meetings crowded into a single week. In May a so-called World's Temperance Convention had been held in that city, under the customary clerical auspices, and, though Lib. 23:[84]; His
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 14: the Nebraska Bill.—1854. (search)
to make it exceedingly difficult to write a word, and therefore my labor was very great. Of course, with my spinal trouble upon me, I was very much exhausted on my arrival, and felt more like going to bed than delivering a speech. I found Oliver Johnson at the depot, and went home with him to tea. The weather was perfectly execrable—rainy, foggy, dispiriting—and the walking something less than knee-deep in mud. No evening could have been more unpropitious for my lecture—my usual luck. The Wpected, though my voice was somewhat hoarse. Give yourself no uneasiness about the reading of your lecture. Of course, you will feel somewhat constrained, but know for your consolation that you always read impressively, never coldly or dully (O. Johnson to W. L. G., Feb. 4, 1854, Ms.). My language was strong, and my accusations of men and things, religion and politics, were very cutting; but, strange to say, not a single hiss or note of disapprobation was heard from beginning to end, but some <
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 17: the disunion Convention.—1857. (search)
more particularly from their juxtaposition. The one appointed a festival at Faneuil Hall on January 2, 1857, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Ante, 1.279. Belknap-Street Church; the other, a State Disunion Convention to be held at Worcester, Mass., on January 15. Two only of the twelve founders of the anti-slavery organization were visible at the festival—Mr. Garrison, who (with Edmund Quincy's aid) presided, and Oliver Johnson among the speakers. Two, if not four, were numbered with the dead, as Joshua Coffin recorded in a Lib. 27.5. letter to the festival. Arnold Buffum regretfully offered Lib. 27.5. his old age and his infirmities and distance from the scene as an excuse for non-attendance. Moses Thacher wrote that he had in his possession the original draft of the Lib. 27.10. Address which he was commissioned to prepare for the Ante, 1.281. new-born Society. Samuel J. May, as he had been compelled i
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 20: Abraham Lincoln.—1860. (search)
most interesting and exciting epoch of his thirty years warfare, Mr. Garrison was disabled by a complicated bronchial disorder from undertaking his customary share of public speaking. At the close of 1859, he was put under medical prohibition, and a journey abroad Ms. Oct. 18, 1859, W. L. G. to E. P. Nichol. seemed desirable, and was even planned for the coming spring. When that season arrived, an appointment for the summer had been made, but also some relief had come Ms. May 31, 1860, O. Johnson to J. M. McKim. of abstinence, and the trip was finally abandoned; a recreation with his family among the White Mountains in August being substituted. But throat and lungs and a Lib. 30.123. slow fever confined him still, for the remainder of the year, to home and Boston. He wrote but little for the Liberator, for this reason and because he had, since 1857, had a very active editorial assistant in Charles K. Whipple; but above all because the mighty movement begun by him now swept irres