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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 34 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807-1892 (search)
young pioneer. The president, after calling James McCrummell, one of the two or three colored members of the convention, to the chair, made some eloquent remarks upon those editors who had ventured to advocate emancipation. At the close of his speech a young man rose to speak, whose appearance at once arrested my attention. I think I have never seen a finer face and figure; and his manner, words, and bearing were in keeping. Who is he? I asked of one of the Pennsylvania delegates. Robert Purvis, of this city, a colored man, was the answer. He began by uttering his heartfelt thanks to the delegates who had convened for the deliverance of his people. He spoke of Garrison in terms of warmest eulogy, as one who had stirred the heart of the nation, broken the tomb-like slumber of the Church, and compelled it to listen to the story of the slave's wrongs. He closed by declaring that the friends of colored Americans would not be forgotten. Their memories, he said, will be cherished
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 7: master strokes. (search)
mbittered toward it and toward its designs for their removal from the country as toward their worst enemy. This circumstance was undoubtedly a poser to their young friend. How could he reconcile this deep-seated and widespread disbelief in the purity of the motives of the Colonization Society, with the simple integrity and humanity of the enterprise itself? Later, his acquaintance with such representatives of the free people of color in Philadelphia as James Forten and his son-in-law, Robert Purvis, served but to confirm those first impressions which he received in Baltimore from the Watkinses and the Greeners. It was the same experience in New York and New Haven, in Boston and Providence. He learned that from the very beginning, in the year 1817, that the free people of color in Richmond and Philadelphia had, by an instinctive knowledge of threatened wrong and danger, met and resolved against the society and its sinister designs upon themselves. These people did not wish to lea
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 8: colorphobia. (search)
th members of this despised caste in Boston and Philadelphia, and other cities, and appreciated so deeply their intrinsic worth and excellence, as men and brethren, that he felt their insults and injuries as if they were done to himself. He knew that beneath many a dark skin he had found real ladies and gentlemen, and he knew how sharper than a serpent's tooth to them was the American prejudice against their color. In 1832, just after a visit to Philadelphia, where he was the guest of Robert Purvis, and had seen much of the Fortens, he wrote a friend: I wish you had been with me in Philadelphia to see what I saw, to hear what I heard, and to experience what I felt in associating with many colored families. There are colored men and women, young men and young ladies, in that city, who have few superiors in refinement, in moral worth, and in all that makes the human character worthy of admiration and praise. Strange to say, notwithstanding all their merits and advancement,
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 9: agitation and repression. (search)
in and Lewis Tappan, of New York. Scholarship, talents, and eloquence abounded among the delegates. Here there was no lack, no poverty, but extraordinary sufficiency, almost to redundancy. The presence of the gentler sex was not wanting to lend grace and picturesqueness to the occasion. The beautiful and benignant countenance of Lucretia Mott shed over the proceedings the soft radiance of a pure and regnant womanhood; while the handful of colored delegates with the elegant figure of Robert Purvis at their head, added pathos and picturesqueness to the personnel of the convention. Neither was the element of danger wanting to complete the historic scene. Its presence was grimly manifest in the official intimation that evening meetings of the convention could not be protected, by the demonstrations of popular ill — will which the delegates encountered on the streets, by the detachment of constabulary guarding the entrance to Adelphi Hall, and by the thrillingly significant precauti
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Index. (search)
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. Pennsylvania Hall, 257-260. Phelps, Amos A., 149, 186, 203,278,280, 288. Phillips Academy (Andover), 190. Phillips, Ann Green, 292, 293. Phillips, Wendell, 190, 257, 310, 317, 323, 3-6, 344, 346-347, 349, 351, 386,387, 388, 393,394. Pillsbury, Parker, 310, Prentice, George D., 120. Purvis, Robert, 144, 162, 178. Quincy, Edmund, 299, 310, 316, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327-329. Quincy, Josiah, 347. Rankin, John, 177. Remond, Charles Lenox, 293, 295, 304. Rhett, Barnwell, 338. Rogers, Nathaniel P., 149, 293, 295, 301. Rynders, Isaiah, 341-344. Scoble, Rev. John, 294. Sewall, Samuel E., 900, 91, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 175, 236, 367. Seward, William H., 338, 372. Shaw, Chief-Justice, 312. Slavery, Rise and Progress of, 95-107. Smith, Gerritt, 147, 236, 297, 320. Sprague
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)
, whose mob-threatened home he quitted, on the night of the burning of the hall, with the parting benediction, Peace be with you, Mr. Garrison took refuge, by invitation, at the friendly house of Morris L. Hallowell, No. 240 North Sixth St., where the Junior Anti-Slavery Society had gathered to meet Henry C. Wright. About two o'clock the next morning (May 18) a covered carriage was driven to the door, into which he got and was spirited away. Joseph Parrish, Jr., Israel H. Johnson, and Robert Purvis bore the chief part in this deliverance. The mob violence continued for several days, and ended, as usual, by alarming the respectable sympathizers with it ( History of Pennsylvania Hall, p. 141; Lib. 8.87). Awful as is this occurrence in Philadelphia, it will do incalculable good to our cause; for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Our friends are all in excellent spirits, shouting, Alleluia! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth! Let the earth rejoice! Fr
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
sts against Colon. Soc., 297; aid to Liberator, 223, 433, praise of it, 254; father-in-law of R. Purvis, 283; aid in buying Thoughts on Colon., 312.—Letters to G., 1.223, 255. Foster, Abby Kelleyiot (London), 1.365, 378; E. Pease, 2.183, 331, 404, 411, 414, 416, 431; J. Pease, 2.391, 393; R. Purvis, 1.284, 311, 313, 314; G. Shepard, 1.204; T. Shipley, 2.64; L. Sunderland, 1.236; Sussex, 1.3Murray, 1.450; J. H. Noyes, 2.145; J. K. Paulding, 2.330; E. Pease, 2.388; A. A. Phelps, 2.62; R. Purvis, 1.283; E. Quincy, 1.436, 2.223, 234; A. Sanger, 2.289; S. E. Sewall, 2.42; G. Shepard, 1.204;[b. Washington, D. C., 1800; d. Philadelphia, Aug. 1, 1884], 2.353. Puritan (Lynn), 2.424. Purvis, Robert [b. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 4, 1810], 1.342, 404; host of G., 283, aid in buying Thought 399; farewell to G., 402; adviser of Collins, 417; labors in British India, 1.498.—Letters to R. Purvis, 1.433, 434, G., 1.450, 453, 520, 2.44, H. C. Wright, 2.58; from L. Tappan, 1.457, R. D. Webb,
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)
Philadelphia during the next fortnight; and having accepted an invitation to be the guest of Robert Purvis A son-in-law of James Forten. Ms. May 30, 1832. during his stay in that city, he set ol worth, and in all that makes the human character worthy of admiration and praise. And to Mr. Purvis himself he writes, immediately upon his return home: The very generous and unremitted exere Liberator its life: It was with much delicacy of feeling, writes Mr. Garrison Ms. to Robert Purvis, Dec. 10, 1832, and a strong reluctance, that we addressed our Circular to some of ourGarrison's private correspondence will fitly close the present chapter. In his June letter to Mr. Purvis, reference is made to a project partly fulfilled by the subsequent tour along the New England think of my own past apathy, and mourn in view of my poverty of thought and language. To Robert Purvis, December 10, 1832: This is my twenty-eighth birthday! See ante, p. 57. I am startled
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 10: Prudence Crandall.—1833. (search)
ion, but shall consult to-day or to-morrow with friends Forten, Cassey, Hinton, Purvis, etc. I am glad to find that the mission meets with a general approval. At the request of Mr. Purvis, I have been sitting for my portrait, and the artist (Brewster） Edmund Brewster, uncle of the eminent lawyer (President Arthur's Attorney-Gephia. The return was by another, with a view to eluding possible pursuit. Robert Purvis, acting on the suggestion of Lewis Tappan, drove Mr. Garrison with a fast hity to witness the pretty spectacle from a nearer point than the river road. Mr. Purvis accordingly turned his horse to the bank, where the view was unobstructed, bu jaded animal refused to go forward and began to back. Realizing the danger, Mr. Purvis jumped from the carriage, but Mr. Garrison sat in apparent indifference (probade a timely escape, the horse being stopped just on the brink. Related by Mr. Purvis in 1881. From New York Mr. Garrison proceeded once more to New Haven, to
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)
resident Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. At this writing (May, 1885), Elizur Wright, Jr., J. G. Whittier, and Robert Purvis alone survive. The Quaker element was naturally prominent. Besides those already mentioned, Maine sent Joseph Southw p. 244). William Green, Jr., Abraham L. Cox, William Goodell, Elizur Wright, Jr., George Bourne, Charles W. Denison, Robert Purvis, and James Miller McKim. On the second day, too, a handful of women, all members of the Society of Friends—Lucretia with him, even into the imminent breach, although there may be professed friends who stand back because of him. Robert Purvis, A colored gentleman of Philadelphia, whose talents and gentlemanly deportment have won the esteem of all who know hbut they broke down. David Paul Brown, Esq., was to have made a speech, but failed them, in consequence of a letter from Purvis (Ms. Dec. 12, 1833, Dr. Cox to W. L. G.). The significant articles of the Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery
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