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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 66 0 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 36 2 Browse Search
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison 30 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 24 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 16 2 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 11 1 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 8 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. 7 1 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 4: Pennsylvania Hall.—the non-resistance society.—1838. (search)
rk that I must finish what I have got to say, in a very few words; for this letter must be dropped into the post-office without delay. Mr. Quincy's adhesion to the new society was not long withheld. On Jan. 4, 1839, Mr. Garrison writes to Mr. May: I am anxious to know the precise state of your mind with regard to our Non-Resistance Society. Edmund Quincy and Robert F. Wallcut are now both members of our Executive Committee, and have arrived at clear satisfaction. In the meantime, as waslling to do anything that may, even indirectly, tend to their support. I hope that after the elections and their consequent excitements are over, As an excuse for not attending an anti-slavery convention in Hingham, Mr. Garrison pleaded to Mr. May, in addition to an inflamed and swollen right hand: Another consideration. This number of the Liberator [Nov. 2, 1838] is a very important one, with regard to the approaching election. The replies of the various candidates to the questions pro
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 5: shall the Liberator lead—1839. (search)
d I do not believe that either the cause of the slave, or the cause of peace and righteousness, has been advanced. I hope and pray that the result of the meeting at New York may be better than I fear. Why will you not come to Scituate after you return from New York, and spend a few days with me—lecture once in each part of the town—and give me an opportunity to converse with you upon the above-named and upon several other topics that are deeply interesting to us? In the same sense, Mr. May wrote to Henry C. Wright, on the day following, adding: May 2, 1839. It is hard and it is painful to me to refuse your urgent solicitation to attend the anniversary meeting of the American A. S. Society. . . . The reason that you urge for my attendance does not weigh with me. If the American Society sees fit to vote that those of us who cannot go to the polls are not qualified to be members, let it. Such a vote will not deaden my sympathy with the slave. It will not change my opinion