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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garrison, Wendell Phillips 1840- (search)
Garrison, Wendell Phillips 1840- Journalist; born in Cambridgeport, Mass., June 4, 1840; graduated at Harvard in 1861; became literary editor of The nation; author of The Benson family of Newport, R. I.; joint author of Life of William Lloyd garrison.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garrison, William Lloyd 1804-1879 (search)
forty-nine days, until Arthur Tappan, of New York, paid the fine. On Jan. 1, 1831, he began the publication of his famous Liberator, a weekly newspaper and uncompromising opponent of slavery, which was discontinued in 1865, when the result for which he had devoted the best energies of his life had been effected by the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln. Mr. Garrison was a founder (1832) of the American Anti-slavery Society, and was its president from that time until 1865. William Lloyd garrison. Attending, as a delegate, the World's Antislavery Convention, in London (1840), he refused to take his seat, because the women delegates from the United States were refused seats in that body. In 1866 he received about $30,000 as a national testimonial from his friends for his arduous labors in the cause of humanity. He died in New York, May 24, 1879. See Phillips, Wendell. Lessons of Independence day. On July 4, 1842, he delivered the following oration in Boston:
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), General Armstrong, the (search)
s a neutral port, and Reid did not expect to be disturbed there by British vessels. He was mistaken. On the 26th Commodore Lloyd appeared off the harbor with his flag-ship, the Plantagenet, seventy-four guns; the frigate Rota, forty-four, Captaimstrong had only seven guns and ninety men, including her officers. In violation of the laws and usages of neutrality, Lloyd sent into the harbor, at eight o'clock in the evening, four large and well-armed launches, manned by about forty men each during the ten hours. To Captain Reid and his brave men is justly due the credit of saving New Orleans from capture. Lloyd's squadron was a part of the expedition then gathering at Jamaica for the invasion of Louisiana. The object of the attac that they did not reach Jamaica until ten days later than the expedition intended to sail from there. It had waited for Lloyd, and when it approached New Orleans Jackson had made ample arrangements to receive the invaders. Had they arrived ten da
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greener, Richard Theodore 1844- (search)
Greener, Richard Theodore 1844- Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 30, 1844; was the first negro graduate at Harvard College, where he finished with a brilliant record in 1870; became a lawyer in 1877; later settled in New York. He has made many addresses, including Charles Sumner, the Idealist, statesman, and scholar; Eulogy on the life and services of William Lloyd garrison; The intellectual position of the negro, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnson, Oliver 1809-1889 (search)
Johnson, Oliver 1809-1889 Journalist; born in Peacham, Vt., Dec. 27, 1809; was managing editor of The independent in 1865-70; and later was editor of the Christian Union. He was the author of William Lloyd garrison and his times, or sketches of the Anti-slavery movement in America. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, Goldwin 1823- (search)
Smith, Goldwin 1823- Author; born in Reading, England, Aug. 23, 1823; graduated at Oxford University in 1845; was Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1858-66. During the Civil War in the United States he was a stanch champion of the national government. He visited the United States in 1864, and later was for a time honorary Professor of English and Constitutional History at Cornell University. In 1871 he settled in Toronto, Canada. He is widely known as an exponent of the idea that Canada will finally unite her political life with that of the United States. His publications include Does the Bible sanction American slavery? on the morality of the emancipation proclamation; A letter to a Whig member of the Southern Independence Association; England and America; The Civil War in America; The relations between England and America; The political destiny of Canada; William Lloyd garrison; History of the United States, etc.