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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 3: Apprenticeship.—1818-1825. (search)
narrate how Lafayette, who was deeply moved by the sight, begged the people, with tears in his eyes, no longer to expose themselves so for his sake, but to disperse and come and shake him by the hand the next morning, and Lloyd was one of the multitude who availed themselves of that privilege. His most considerable contribution to the Herald N. P. Herald, May 17, 1825. during the last year of his apprenticeship was a threecolumn article on American Writers, in reply to an attack by John Neal in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; but most of the writers in whose behalf he sharpened his quill are now forgotten and unknown. On the 10th of December, 1825, he completed his apprenticeship of seven years and two months in the Herald office, and under the (as it subsequently appeared, mistaken) impression that the year of his birth was 1804, and that he had now attained his majority, he signalized the event by a fervid poem of eight stanzas, entitled Twenty-One! with this concluding
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)
every obstacle. During the month of August, 1828, Mr. Garrison had had a controversy with John Neal of Portland, then editing a newspaper called the Yankee, in that city. He had frequently, in the Philanthropist, ridiculed Neal's egotistical and bombastic style of writing, and an assertion of Neal's that his retirement from that journal was compulsory, because of his attacks on himself, aroNeal's that his retirement from that journal was compulsory, because of his attacks on himself, aroused all the hot blood in the young man's veins, and caused him to send a wrathful epistle of denial, which was printed in the Yankee. After refuting the assertion, August 13, 1828. he demanded a r should have deemed the unfounded and dastardly charge worth noticing, when made by such a man as Neal. The latter's comments on his letter, however, so exasperated Mr. Garrison that he wrote a seconaph: You declare that you never heard of my name before— Portland Yankee, August 20, 1828; Neal's Wandering Recollections of a Busy Life, p. 401; cf. ante, p. 76. that we are entire strangers
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)
ife of Arthur Tappan (pp. 168-175) and in Johnson's Garrison and his Times (p. 145). Mr. Garrison's relations to it are all that can concern us here. Swaggering John Neal, There swaggers John Neal, who has wasted in Maine The sinews and chords of his pugilist brain. A man who's made less than he might have, because He always hasJohn Neal, who has wasted in Maine The sinews and chords of his pugilist brain. A man who's made less than he might have, because He always has thought himself more than he was. Lowell's Fable for critics. who, naturally enough as a notorious Colonizationist, took a leading part in it, has left this blundering account in his Wandering Recollections of a somewhat busy life : As I happened to be going through New York, with my P. 401. wife, on our way to the West down a church because a hunted man had found shelter with the women there; and we parted in peace. There was a comic side to all this. I suppose our citizen, J. Neal, writes Nathan Winslow from Portland to Mr. Garrison, Oct. 17, 1833 (Ms.), feels quite happy in haranguing a mob where he can disgorge his froth without having hi