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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 12: Dred, 1856. (search)
I received your first letter with great joy, relief, and gratitude, first to God for restoring your health and strength, and then to you for so good, long, and refreshing a letter. Henry, I hope, comes home with a serious determination to do well and be a comfort. Seldom has a young man seen what he has in this journey, or made more valuable friends. Since we left Aberdeen, from which place my last was mailed, we have visited in Edinburgh with abounding delight; thence yesterday to Newcastle. Last night attended service in Durham Cathedral, and after that came to York, whence we send Henry to Liverpool. I send you letters, etc., by him. One hundred thousand copies of Dred sold in four weeks! After that who cares what critics say? Its success in England has been complete, so far as sale is concerned. It is very bitterly attacked, both from a literary and a religious point of view. The Record is down upon it with a cartload of solemnity; the Athenaeum with waspish spite;
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)
can we lose? Have we not now thoroughly tried everything short of this? Precedents are not to be quoted against us. Anti-Masonry had not such a quarry. Its object slunk away from it. The enterprise was never half baked. Yet it died, not by nominating separate candidates so much as by amalgamating with existing parties. After all, it died for want of tangible work, more than anything else. Our cause is entirely different. But you have thought of this more than I, so no more coals to Newcastle. I throw in my mite. One thing I know. Unless you do take such a step, our New organization here is A gone case. It has been, inter nos, Shockingly mismanaged. Everything has been made to turn upon the woman question. The political has been left to fall out of sight. In our State politics, the Temperance question is so fairly on the ground that we have not room to stand. It won't do for us to start the national politics. But if the Parent Society does so, and not by our move—the
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 7: the World's Convention.—1840. (search)
me. This important manifesto was forwarded by Elizabeth Pease on Sept. 3. It was begun in July (Ms. [July] 18, 1840, E. Pease to W. L. G.) It is, said Mr. Garrison, one of the results of our mission to England, and is alone a rich compensation for all the expense and trouble incurred by that mission (Lib. 10.155). Elliott Cresson. I shall return on Wednesday or Thursday, and shall probably leave London with Geo. Thompson and Rogers, on Friday, for Scotland,—going first to Tynemouth, near Newcastle, to spend a day with Harriet Martineau. I shall try to send you a letter by the Great Western, on the 25th inst. Mrs. Thompson is near her confinement. She is in Edinburgh, with her children. There is to be a great meeting in Glasgow on the 1st of August, which I shall probably attend. I shall also go to Ireland. . . . I long to get back, dearest, and mingle in the glorious conflict which is going on in our country. Tell bro. J. to bear an Oliver Johnson. open front and a serene c
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 6: third mission to England.—1846. (search)
tineau], at Ambleside, before my return; but she left for Egypt a few days before I sailed, and I missed the coveted opportunity. I saw her mother and sister at Newcastle [Lib. 16: 187]. As to the second of the American divines here mentioned, the Rev. Samuel May, jr., wrote to Mary Carpenter on July 15, 1851 (Ms.): Years ago, Dreter Hall meeting, Mr. Garrison Ante, p. 166. bade good-bye to London, and began his North British Sept. 18. tour, reaching Glasgow on September 19, by way of Newcastle and Berwick. His perfervid Scotch friends gave him even less rest than he had snatched in England. On October 3, he wrote from Belfast of the past fortnight: I A short respite permitted him to visit Elizabeth Pease in Darlington, Oct. 14, 1846. and gratified him with the personal assurance of her improving health. At Newcastle, on October 16, the Lib. 16.187. Mayor presided at a meeting which effaced the impression made at Paisley, and this was succeeded by a public Ante, p. 175. bre
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 13: the Bible Convention.—1853. (search)
r country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind. I forgot to add in its place that, under my name, were two hands clasped together, one white, the other black. . . . I spoke at considerable length at both meetings, and was listened to with the most profound attention; and my remarks seemed to be generally well received. It is impossible to say anything new here on the subject of slavery, as they have had all our able lecturers in superabundance. It is almost like carrying coals to Newcastle, and I felt it to be so. I was agreeably surprised, while speaking in the afternoon, to see Sallie Holley Daughter of Myron Holley, for some two years past a very acceptable anti-slavery lecturer. come into the meeting, with her travelling companion, Miss Putnam. She has been laboring with great Caroline F. Putnam. success in Detroit and other places, and will probably be induced to remain in the State a short time longer. W. L. Garrison to his Wife. Battle Creek, October 1
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 1: no union with non-slaveholders!—1861. (search)
nstruction on the points at issue. George Thompson was already preparing himself for the task of enlightening his fellow-countrymen, and enlisting their sympathies in behalf of the American Government in its struggle with slavery in arms. George Thompson to W. L. Garrison. Tynemouth, Northumberland, June 7, 1861. Lib. 31.102. My dear Garrison: Yours of the 21st ultimo has within the present hour reached me at this place, where I am staying for a few days, going almost daily into Newcastle to consult with my anti-slavery friends there on the progress of the cause in America, and the means we may legitimately employ to promote it. . . . I have been a deeply interested observer of late events on your side of the ocean, and have studied them with all the powers of reflection I can command. My talk is incessantly in reference to them, and I miss no opportunity of publicly addressing my countrymen upon them. I enclose you copies of reports made of my late speeches in London
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 3: the Proclamation.—1863. (search)
mas Walker, with the powerful aid of Harriet Martineau, who wrote scores of editorials on the American question. Westminster Review, Spectator, Nonconformist, British Standard, Dial, Birmingham Post, The Birmingham Post published an instructive series of letters on the American question from the pen of Mr. Samuel A. Goddard, an American gentleman long resident in that city, and a brother of Mrs. Mary May. They were subsequently collected in a volume (London, 1870). Manchester Examiner, Newcastle Chronicle, Caledonian Mercury, Belfast Whig, The Belfast Whig was the most influential journal in the north of Ireland. Its editor, Mr. Frank Harrison Hill, afterwards succeeded Thomas Walker as editor of the Daily News. and a host of other representatives of the fourth estate, have never departed from the pure faith. The working classes also have proved to be sound to the core, whenever their opinion has been tested. Witness the noble demonstration of Manchester operatives the other
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 8: to England and the Continent.—1867. (search)
ad. Mr. Mawson presided at the crowded soiree given to Mr. Garrison on the evening of July 9, in the Assembly Rooms at Newcastle, and his voice faltered with emotion as he testified that their guest, after receiving a nation's thanks and obtaining erica, had a potent influence in securing the rights of citizenship for the artisans and the agriculturists of England (Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Nov. 16, 1885). The Address was read by Joseph Cowen, Jr., proprietor of the Newcastle Daily Chronicleers of the North Shields Reform Newcastle Chronicle, July 10, 1867. League, embracing the opportunity of your visit to Newcastle after a lengthened interval of time, and at the close of the labor of your life, desire, on behalf of a large body of n, Less than two months later (Dec. 18) Mr. Mawson was killed by an explosion of nitro-glycerine on the town moor of Newcastle. He was one of the most affectionate, loving, magnetic persons I ever knew, and had one of the most charming homes . .
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 10: death of Mrs. Garrison.—final visit to England.—1876, 1877. (search)
ces of the following day, which July 17. included glimpses of York Minster and Durham Cathedral on the journey to Newcastle-on-Tyne. John Mawson was no longer living to welcome him to the latter city, but his Ante, pp. 219, 235. beautiful home at Gateshead remained, and the hospitality of his family was unstinted during the four days of Mr. July 17-21. Garrison's visit. The evenings witnessed successive gatherings of friends to meet him, and a semi-public breakfast was tendered him in Newcastle by Mrs. Butler's July 20. supporters, to which he consented only because of their earnest assurance that his endorsement would greatly help their cause in the North of England. Twenty days were allotted to Scotland, the first seven of which were spent in Edinburgh, with Elizabeth Pease July 21-28. Nichol. Very precious and happy days they were, for Huntly Lodge was like a second home to Mr. Garrison, and communion with its dear and honored mistress one of his greatest delights. Thit
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 7: study in a law office.—Visit to Washington.—January, 1854, to September, 1834.—Age, 23. (search)
ave not seen, except from a distance, the President's house; and have not traversed the city. All these are the pleasures of to-day. I called first upon Judge Story; found him boarding, with the rest of the court, in a house near the Capitol; was most kindly received by him. He wished me to tell you that he should take good care of me. I left Philadelphia Friday morning at seven o'clock, in the boat William Penn,—a large and ample establishment,—sailed forty miles down the Delaware to Newcastle; jumped into a railroad-car, and in an hour and five minutes, by Henry's watch, passed through the State of Delaware to Frenchtown, at the head of Elk River,—General Washington's headquarters,—a distance of sixteen and a half miles; then took the steamer Charles Carroll for Baltimore, down the Elk and Chesapeake and up the Patapsco, upon which Baltimore is situated,—a distance of sixty-four miles,—arriving at Baltimore at six o'clock in the evening, where I stopped at Barnum's till th
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