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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 4: editorial Experiments.—1826-1828. (search)
eir place. They were doubtless Democrats (or republicans, as they were then called) who had taken offence at his criticisms on Governors Eustis Wm. Eustis, Levi Lincoln. and Lincoln for their unsatisfactory conduct of the State's case against the National Government; and more followed their example a week or two later. NevertLincoln for their unsatisfactory conduct of the State's case against the National Government; and more followed their example a week or two later. Neverthless, we repeat, said the editor, our happiness at the loss of such subscribers is not a whit abated. We beg no man's patronage, and shall ever erase with the same cheerfulness that we insert the name of any individual. . . . Personal or political offence we shall studiously try to avoid—truth, never. The year 1826 was notewor some effort to do so, was apparent from an occasional paragraph or editorial defending Henry Clay against attacks made upon him, or urging voters to support Governor Lincoln for reelection, or commending the new American System; and one correspondent even took him to task for publishing an extract from Mr. Webster's speech on int
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 10: Prudence Crandall.—1833. (search)
o us in this region that he should be publicly discountenanced, and even given up to justice; who is in fact this moment in danger of being surrendered to the civil authorities of some one of the Southern States; this man, in connection with a few like-minded spirits, has been engaged in forming what they call The New-England Anti-slavery Society, one object of which is, to effect the abolition of slavery in the United States. . . . I have conversed freely with the Governor of this Levi Lincoln, 1825-33. Commonwealth, and other leading men, on this subject, and they express a decided disapprobation of Garrison's course. For a while he tried the effect of his Liberator upon the Governor by sending it to him. His Excellency, however, did not think it worth the postage, and ordered it stopped. Garrison is now preparing to go to England, doubtless to repeat viva voce the defamation of the South and the Colonization Society which has been already sent over in print, and re-echoed
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 12: American Anti-slavery Society.—1833. (search)
wo or three colored members. representing ten of the twelve free States, made their way the next morning December 4, 1833. to Adelphi Hall, on Fifth Street below Walnut, greeted with abusive language as they went along, and finding the entrance to the building guarded by the police. The doors were locked upon an assembly, as Whittier noticed, mainly composed of comparatively young men, some in middle age, and a few beyond that period. Five-sevenths of them were destined to survive President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. At this writing (May, 1885), Elizur Wright, Jr., J. G. Whittier, and Robert Purvis alone survive. The Quaker element was naturally prominent. Besides those already mentioned, Maine sent Joseph Southwick, and Nathan and Isaac Winslow; Massachusetts, Arnold Buffum and Effingham L. Capron; Effingham L. Capron was a Friend, of the straitest kind. At first he was no abolitionist, and was very much prejudiced against William Lloyd Garrison. Persuaded by m