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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 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 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
n that of stirring up strife between the South and the North on this matter of slavery; that they ought to be at home, attending to their domestic concerns, instead of sowing the seeds of political discord in the Anti-Slavery Rooms. Many of our first men decided that the meeting should not be held, let the consequences be what they might! On the morning of the day of the meeting, I was waited upon by a committee of two —Messrs. Isaac Stevens, now dead, and Isaac Means (who married old Tobias Lord's daughter), both merchants on Central Wharf Both, also, signers of the call for the Fanueil Hall meeting. Means was in the West India trade.—who requested me to write, print, and cause to be distributed an inflammatory handbill in relation to the meeting--something that would wake up the populace—and they would pay the expense. I complied, most cheerfully, as I considered it, at the moment, as merely a business transaction, and not dreaming that so light a flame would, in a few hour<