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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)
he Baptist faith, he yet delighted to listen to the preaching of Lyman Beecher, in Hanover-Street Church, to William Ellery Channing, in Federal Street, and to John Pierpont, in Hollis Street; and though he grieved that the two last-named divines were so unsound in their theological views, and wandered so far from the true faith, hys; and the order of the Mayor and Aldermen prohibiting it appeared in the Philanthropist, as did also a portion of an admirable and courageous address by the Rev. John Pierpont on the evils of the militia system, and the uselessness and inefficiency of military musters. Mr. Garrison listened with delight to this address, delivered before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, which had incautiously invited Mr. Pierpont to preach the annual sermon for that year. The universal use of intoxicating liquors on almost every occasion where men assembled together, sixty years ago, can be faintly indicated now by the statement that, aside from the consta
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 5: Bennington and the Journal of the Times—1828-29. (search)
ubtle, and Jour. of the Times, Oct. 31, 1828. inconclusive arguments of a discourse of Rev. John Pierpont's, to which he had listened some months before, elicited a letter from that gentleman, whorse, with comments, at the same time declaring that he enthusiastically admired everything in Mr. Pierpont but his theology. As a beautiful, finished, and elegant writer, I know not his superior in the twenty-four States; and his taste in poetry and literature is before any other man's. Mr. Pierpont having thanked him for his manliness in sending him a copy of the Journal containing the stricturam certain it will be disappointed; but I shall do my best. You shall know the result. Rev. Mr. Pierpont honored me with a visit a few days since. He is an accomplished man, and his friendship we to address an audience which filled Park-Street Church and included Whittier, Goodell, and John Pierpont, whose spirited hymn (With thy pure dews and rains) was ready for the occasion. It was sung
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)
ll cases be victorious. Not yet had Mr. Garrison carried his peace doctrine so far as to disfranchise Lib. 1.55, 71. himself rather than, by voting, to sustain a government resting on force. Capital punishment he naturally Lib. 1.63. held to be unauthorized. The penitentiary should Lib. 1.7. become a place of just yet merciful correction, and of the means of moral reform. We see him attending a public meeting in Faneuil Hall, presided over by Mayor Otis, and addressed by the Rev. John Pierpont, Lib. 1.23. for the abolishment of imprisonment for debt; and Lib. 1.28. leaving it with a poem The Poor Debtor; poetically estimated, not above the mediocrity of occasional verse. running in his head to illustrate the barbarity of a system which, as far as it goes, is scarcely surpassed by African slavery—the difference being that the people had the remedy in their Lib. 1.6. own hands. It was both as an abolitionist and as a Christian that Mr. Garrison reported with ind