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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
hat banner. He was more correct in his prediction than in his choice of terms. On the 28th of October following, Mr. Abbott Lawrence, the Lib. 4.178. Whig candidate for Congress in the First District of Massachusetts, was honored with a letter n the District of Columbia, and calling for an expression of his sentiments on this subject. No pledge was exacted of Mr. Lawrence, but he was urged to aid in the early suppression of this national iniquity, and a plain intimation was given that upon his sentiments about it would depend the political support of the subscribers. Mr. Lawrence, in reply, admitted slavery to be (as Niles' Register, 47.162. in the language of his interrogators) the greatest moral question that has ever been prthat anti-Republican epoch in Massachusetts, he took the colored voters of the district to task for having supported Abbott Lawrence. He had, he said, never attempted to bias their minds on any points, religious or political. He had avoided their
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)
an Buren paper) for a town-meeting to put down the abolitionists; but the disease is deeper than can be healed by town-meeting resolutions. August 12. Mr. Abbott Lawrence told me that they were going to have a very great meeting at Boston to put down the anti-slavery abolitionists; but, he said, there was no diversity of opin, was typical of that of the best citizens, among whom for humanity and public spirit Mr. Lyman was justly held in the highest esteem. being in the chair, and Abbott Lawrence a vice-president—to draw up an indictment against their fellow-citizens. The preliminary resolutions confessed Lib. 5.139, 141, 144. Boston's eagerness tobject it will be, and whose tendency now is, to bear directly upon the ballot-boxes and to influence the elections, as in the recent case of Ante, p. 455. Abbott Lawrence. How soon might you see a majority in Congress returned under the influence of [anti-slavery] associations? He exhorted the abolitionists to consider the co