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Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 1: the father of the man. (search)
ere was in July, 1827, a caucus of the Federal party to nominate a successor to Daniel Webster in the House of Representatives. Young Garrison attended this caucus, and made havoc of its cut and dried programme, by moving the nomination of Harrison Gray Otis, instead of the candidate, a Mr. Benjamin Gorham, agreed upon by the leaders. Harrison Gray Otis was one of Garrison's early and particular idols. He was, perhaps, the one Massachusetts politician whom the young Federalist had placed on aHarrison Gray Otis was one of Garrison's early and particular idols. He was, perhaps, the one Massachusetts politician whom the young Federalist had placed on a pedestal. And so on this occasion he went into the caucus with a written speech in his hat, eulogistic of his favorite. He had meant to have the speech at his tongue's end, and to get it off as if on the spur of the moment. But the speech stayed where it was put, in the speaker's hat, and failed to materialize where and when it was wanted on the speaker's tongue. As the mountain would not go to Mahomet, Mahomet like a sensible prophet went to the mountain. Our orator in imitation of this
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 6: the heavy world is moved. (search)
ty of the press. The Governors of Virginia and Georgia remonstrated with Harrison Gray Otis, who was Mayor of Boston in the memorable year of 1831, against an incendir plantations, inciting to insurrection and its horrid results. As a lawyer Mayor Otis, however, perceived the intrinsic, if not insuperable obstacles to legislativson, of his honor's acquaintance, had ever heard. The result of this inquiry Mayor Otis reported to the Southern functionaries. Some time afterward, he wrote, it a very few insignificant persons of all colors. With this bare bodkin Harrison Gray Otis thought to puncture the Southern panic. But the slaveholders had correctmust be suppressed; ergo, its editor must be silenced or destroyed. And so when Otis, from his serene height, assured them of his belief that the new fanaticism had rs, but carrying aloft the banner of immediate and Uncon-Ditional Emancipation. Otis had looked to numbers and respectability as his political barometer and cue; but
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 11: Mischief let loose. (search)
One of their hearers, a young attorney of twenty-four, who listened to Peleg Sprague and Harrison Gray Otis that day, described sixteen years afterward the latter and the effects produced by him on oung attorney vividly recalled how Abolitionist was linked with contempt, in the silver tones of Otis, and all the charms that a divine eloquence and most felicitous diction could throw around a bad n blood. The great meeting was soon a thing of the past but not so its effects. The echoes of Otis and Sprague did did not cease at its close. They thrilled in the air, they thrilled long afterwao be jostling elbows with Mistress Mischief, and her als. Garrison's answer to the speeches of Otis and Sprague was in his sternest vein. He is sure after reading them that, there is more guilt atpless women; and with conspirators against the lives and liberties of New England citizens. To Otis who was then nearly seventy years of age Garrison addressed his rebuke in tones of singular solem
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Index. (search)
-196, 219, 297, 331, 385-386. Garrison, James, 19, 20, 302-303. Garrison, Joseph, II, 12. Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 297. Garrison, William Lloyd, Early years, 11-26; Publishes Free Press, 27-34; seeks work in Boston, 35; nominates Harrison Gray Otis for Congress, 35-36; temperance and the Philanthropist, 39-44; meets Lundy, 44; early attitude on the slavery question, 46-50; on war, 5 ; first experience with ministers on the subject of slavery, 52; Anti-slavery Committee of twenty, 53;259. Morley, Samuel, 390, Mott, Lucretia, 178,259, 292, 293. National Intelligencer, 28. New England Anti-Slavery Society, 137-141, 200, 280, 311. New England Spectator, 282. Newman, Prof. Francis W., 378. O'Connell, Daniel, 154, 170, 171, 304. Otis, Harrison Gray, 35,129, 30, 131, 213, 214, 215. Palmer, Daniel, 1. Palmer, Mary, 11, 12. Parker, Mary S., 222, 234, Parker, Theodore, 121,349,350, 362. Pastoral Letter, 277. Paxton, Rev. J. D., 186. Pease, Elizabeth, 303, 331, 346. Pennsylva