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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 2 2 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 5: shall the Liberator lead—1839. (search)
dful of the long-winded tactics of his opponents) were limited to ten minutes, but there was no flagging. The question most discussed, and which occupied a day and a half, was as to allowing women delegates to sit and act with the Society. The opposition came chiefly from clergymen, and these from Massachusetts; Nathaniel Colver moving that the Lib. 9.82. committee enroll only men. With him voted his brother ministers Phelps, Orange Scott, George Storrs, George Allen, Beriah Green, La Roy Sunderland, among others, together with Birney and Lewis Tappan. Gerrit Smith, who was in the chair, and voted for the admission of women, thought that five to one were on his side, but Lewis Tappan called for the yeas and nays, which carried the vote over till the next forenoon, and gave a chance for rallying the opposition, and the final vote stood 180 yeas to 140 nays. Even then Phelps strove to obtain a declaration that the vote did not mean that women should speak, or act on committees; bu
ds Brit. and Foreign A. S. S., 2.352, introduces Clarkson at World's Convention, 367; opposes women delegates, 353, 369. Suffield, Lord [1781-1835], English abolitionists, 1.351; signs protest against Colon. Soc., 361. Sullivan, Catherine M., 2.47. Sumner, Charles [1811-1874], reports Brougham's speech on Thompson, 1.436, subscribes for Lib., 2.35, letter to Lieber, 81.—Portrait in Life. Son of Sumner, Charles Pinckney [d. 1839, aged 63], 2.29. Sun (N. Y.), 1.521. Sunderland, La Roy, Rev. [b. April 22, 1804; d. Hyde Park, Mass., May 15, 1885], career, 1.236; warns G. of plot, 236; opposes enrolment of women, 2.297; at G.'s address, 358. Sussex, Duke of [1773-1843], patron of Cresson, 1.365, 367, presides at meeting, 367; letters from G., 365, 368, unanswered, 366, 368. Sutherland, Duchess of [1806-1868], meets G., 2.385, 387, bespeaks his portrait, 387, 390; attentions to Remond, 388. Swain, David Lowry [1801-1868], 2.62. Swain, William, assistant of Lun
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 8: the Liberator1831. (search)
ence among them. . . . Don't understand me, he adds, with a superfluous reminder of the prevailing estimate, North as well as South, of the free people of color, to mean by the term freemen yellow-skins or knotty heads—these I do not recognize as such, nor are they looked upon by men of high honor and noble feeling as in any degree elevated above a level with slaves. If Boston did not suppress the Liberator, the Southerners would. The third letter was from a friendly clergyman, Rev. La Roy Sunderland, of the Methodist denomination, then settled at Andover, Mass. (Lib. 3:[94], and p. VIII. of Phelps's Lectures on slavery and its remedy, 1834). In 1836 he founded in New York Zion's Watchman. a staunch anti-slavery paper (Lib. 6.11, and Johnson's Garrison, pp. 187, 239), and published The testimony of God against slavery, Mr. Garrison thanked him privately for his warning, in a letter dated Sept., 8, 1831. first printed in Lib. Sept. 18, 1857. who reported to Mr. Garrison a convers