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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
all! And upon that consecrated spot I was made an object of derision and scorn, and my body was denuded of a large portion of its covering, in the presence of thousands of my fellow-citizens! O, base degeneracy from their parentstock! Josiah Quincy, Jr., afterwards Mayor of Boston, then President of the Common Council, saw the whole movement in Wilson's Lane from his office at 27 State Street. In obedience to his official duty, I rushed down, he says, Jan. 7, 1870 ( Garrison Mob, p. 54), go into the Liberator, reprimanding the Mayor for his pusillanimous conduct, our friend E. M. P. Wells An Episcopal clergyman, Principal of the Boston Asylum and Farm School, of which Mayor Lyman was President and a liberal benefactor (see Josiah Quincy's Figures of the past, p. 5). has captiously ordered his paper to be stopped. Very well—Good-by. The pretext is most ridiculous. See what it is to have respect unto persons! Surely, An Abolitionist and Another Abolitionist—two against on
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
owed the greater self-abnegation, the greater integrity of mind and moral independence, in quitting his fashionable, respectable, Bostonian-aristocratic associations, to cast in his lot with the Garrisonian fanatics. Mr. Quincy was a son of Josiah Quincy, President of Harvard University (of which institution he was himself a graduate In 1827, four years before Mr. Phillips. Both, again, were sons of exmayors of Boston. See Mr. Garrison's appreciation of Mr. Quincy's selfsacrifice in Lib.Mr. Quincy's selfsacrifice in Lib. 18.2.), and a descendant of that Edmund Quincy who was among the earliest and the weightiest settlers of Boston. Like Mr. Phillips, he was a member of the Suffolk bar; unlike him, he belonged to the Unitarian connection. The following letters speak for themselves: Edmund Quincy to Henry G. Chapman. Boston, November 23, 1837. Lib. 7.207. My dear Sir: I enclose a check for fifteen dollars, being my life subscription to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. I am informed that you ar