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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), chapter 177 (search)
ner, looked calmly at the speaker, and replied, Well, sir, if you did cut off my ears, I should still cry aloud, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Meanwhile my heart was thumping like a sledgehammer, for, before the speaking began, Samuel J. May had come to me and said in a very low tone, Do you see how the walls are lined by stout truckmen, brandishing their whips? They are part of a large mob around the entrance in Federal Street, employed by the Southerners to seize George Thomps tiptoe and survey the platform anxiously. Soon a loud oath was heard, accompanied by the exclamation, he's gone! Then such a thundering stampede as there was down the front stairs I have never heard. We remained in the hall, and presently Samuel J. May came to us so agitated that he was pale to the very lips. Thank God, he is saved! He exclaimed; and we wrung his hand with hearts too full for speech. The Boston newspaper press, as usual, presented a united front in sympathy with the sl
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 7: Baltimore jail, and After.—1830. (search)
g Boston lawyer; and his brother-in-law, A. Bronson Alcott. It was natural that Mr. Sewall should find himself in sympathy with Mr. Garrison. His distinguished ancestor, Judge Samuel Sewall, was one of the earliest opponents of slavery in America, and published an antislavery pamphlet, The selling of Joseph; a memorial, in 1700 (reprinted in Williams's History of the negro race in America, 1: 210). (For his descent from Judge Sewall, see Titcomb's Early New England people, pp. 217-223.) Mr. May (who was born in 1797, and hence was eight years Mr. Garrison's senior) was a son of Col. Joseph May, of Boston, a highly respected merchant, and both he and his cousin Mr. Sewall graduated from Harvard College in 1817, in the same class with David Lee Child, George Bancroft, George B. Emerson, Caleb Cushing, Samuel A. Eliot, Stephen Salisbury, Stephen H. Tyng, and Robert F. Wallcut. It is worthy of note that Mr. May preached his first sermon in December, 1820, on the Sunday following the
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 8: the Liberator—1831. (search)
cher. however, who will shortly be able to alleviate our toil. I cannot give you a better apprehension of the arduousness of my labors than by stating that it is more than six weeks since I visited Mr. Coffin Peter Coffin, father-in-law of Mr. May. Atkinson Street was that part of Congress now lying between Milk and Purchase Streets; the family lived, therefore, at no great distance from the Liberator office. They were remotely related to Joshua Coffin, the historian of Newbury, Mass., o Garrison's life. In the twenty-eighth number of the Liberator appeared among the list of agents the name of Henry Egbert Benson, of Providence, R. I. He was the younger brother of the Mr. Benson mentioned above, and it was at the suggestion of Mr. May, then the Unitarian pastor of Ms. July 18, 1831. the Connecticut village of Brooklyn, in which their father resided, that Mr. Garrison inserted Henry Egbert's name, and immediately wrote to beg his acceptance of the Ms. July 30, 1831. com
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
ng that if the apostolic number of twelve should be found ready to unite upon the principles that should be thought vital, and in a plan of operations deemed wise and expedient, an association should then and there be organized. Among them were Mr. May and Mr. Oliver Johnson's Garrison, pp. 82-89; May's Recollections, pp. 30-32. Johnson, who have both given an account of the proceedings. Mr. Garrison took the initiative, by describing what the Abolitionists of Great Britain had done, sincection that the vitality of the movement depended upon a frank avowal of fundamental principles, however unpopular they might be; and the vote upon the question showed that nine were in favor of organizing upon his plan, while six were opposed. Mr. May was consequently obliged to return home without witnessing the completion of the organization. Nevertheless the attempt was not abandoned. On Friday, December 16, another meeting was held at the same place, with ten present, Namely, accor
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)
d other places. The light which has burst forth so auspiciously in the West, is the harbinger of a mighty victory. At this very time, according to Benton (Thirty years view, 1.341), there was no sign of a slavery agitation. Much greater reason had Mr. Garrison to be elated and strengthened by the extraordinary events of the year now drawing to a close. The persecution and spirited defence of Miss Crandall, in which the princely liberality of Arthur Tappan, the rare moral courage of Mr. May, and the vigorous articles of Charles C. Burleigh, editor of the extemporized Unionist, combined to strike the imagination and stir the moral sense of the public; the cordial and high social reception in England of the agent of the New England Anti-Slavery Society; his conspicuous success in defeating abroad the humbug Society which still retained at home the odor of respectability and sanctity, Cresson's retreat to America began on Oct. 10, 1833 (Lib. 4.35). and in bearing back the Wilb
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)
uted, that at Nantucket in August was a conspicuous Aug. 10, 11, 12, 1841; Lib. 11.130, 134. example of the glad renewal of anti-slavery fellowship (the sectarian spirit having been exorcised), and was otherwise memorable. No report is left of the social delights of companionship between Bradburn (a sort of Geo. Bradburn. island host), Quincy, Garrison, and Collins; but the significant incident of the public proceedings has been recorded by the chief actor in them. This was Frederick S. J. May's Recollections, p. 292. Douglass of New Bedford, formerly a Maryland slave, and only for three years a freeman by virtue of being a fugitive. His extraordinary oratorical powers were hardly suspected by himself, and he had never addressed any but his own color when he was induced to narrate his experiences at Nantucket. It was, he says, with the utmost difficulty that I could Life of F. Douglass, ed. 1882, p. 216; Cf. Anna Gardner's Harvest Gleanings, pp. 17-19. stand erect, or t
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 2: the Irish address.—1842. (search)
it, and she told all the little incidents of the last few hours with the utmost tranquillity. Her sisters were not all as calm as she, but they all felt the power of her peace upon them. At the funeral, she evinced the same tranquillity. Samuel J. May was invited to perform the usual services, at Chapman's request, not as a priest but as a friend, out of regard to the feelings of his father and mother. After he had made a prayer, S. J. May. Garrison, who had been told by Mrs. Chapman if S. J. May. Garrison, who had been told by Mrs. Chapman if he had any word to utter not to withhold it, made a very excellent address, to the no small astonishment of certain of the relatives, who had not looked for an anti-slavery lecture at such a time. Neither Mrs. C. nor any of the family put on mourning, which was a M. W. Chapman. strange thing in a community where the chains of custom and public opinion are like links of iron. A day or two afterwards, I went to town to see her, apprehending that when the excitement was over, a reaction might
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 5: Texas.—1845. (search)
graphy seemed a long stride towards the desideratum, as promising to render each national dialect simple and exact, and make easy the transition from many rectified languages to one pure language. With millennial hopefulness, he repeated his belief that some then living would witness a world's convention either to devise a common language, or to provide ways and means for the universal propagation of such a language. The fancied every-day uses of the art he thus pictured in a letter to S. J. May: My attention has recently been drawn to the subject of Ms. July 17, 1845. Phonography and Phonotypy, and I want you, as a friend of universal reform, to look into it; for I am persuaded you will be delighted with it, as I have been. It is a new system of writing and printing, invented by Mr. Isaac Pitman, a teacher in Bath, England, by which the ignorant masses may be taught to read and write in an almost incredibly short space of time— compressing the labor of months into weeks,
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 6: third mission to England.—1846. (search)
ncy in Faneuil Hall on Mr. Garrison's return, touching these coincidences of Clarkson and Wilberforce (Lib. 16: 202). It is a fact for a poet to celebrate, wrote S. J. May to his friend on his return, that you should have been in England to attend the burial of Clarkson, as you were of his co-worker Wilberforce. Lib. 16.194. But inism is as odious in this country as infidelity is in ours; but, thus far, those who have most zealously espoused my mission have been the Unitarians. Ms. To S. J. May Mr. Garrison wrote from Boston on Dec. 19, 1846 (Ms.): I am under great obligations to Francis Bishop, William James, H. Solly, Philip Carpenter, George Harris, his morning, dear Helen presented me with a new-comer into this breathing world,—a daughter,—and the finest babe ever yet born in Boston! On Dec. 19 he informed S. J. May (Ms.) that the little girl had been named Elizabeth Pease. Wendell Phillips wrote to her namesake on Jan. 31, 1847 (Ms.): Garrison's child is a nice, healthy, d
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)
he Rev. Samuel May, Jr., Mr. May—a Unitarian clergyman residing at Leicester, Mass., and universally esteemed and beloved in his own denomination; a cousin of S. J. May, and worthy to be such; a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1829 with Wm. Henry Channing, J. F. Clarke, and other men of national and world-wide reputaA thousand kisses for them—as many for you—on my return. Should you have written to me at Syracuse, I shall get the letter, as I intend to spend a day with dear S. J. May. Douglass left here on Sept. 14. Tuesday noon. Your improving husband. Nothing but the indiscreet newspaper report of Mr. Garrison's condition could have jit not strange that Douglass has not written a single line to me, or to anyone in this place, inquiring after my health, since he left me on a bed of illness? S. J. May wrote from Waterloo to Mr. Garrison (Ms. Oct. 8, 1847): Frederick Douglass was very much troubled that he did not get any tidings from you when he reached Syrac<
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