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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)
e North Carolina indictment and proposed demand for the extradition of Garrison and Lib. 1.175, 191. Knapp, seasoned its indignation at the Georgia offer with a humor still more fatal to Southern pretensions. Mr. Lib. 2.3, 7. Garrison wanted no better vindication than he found in the events succeeding the 22d of August, 1831, the bloody Monday on which Nat Turner and his fellow-slaves Niles' Register, Aug. 27, 1831, p. 455. attacked some dozen white families in the neighborhood of Southampton, shot or otherwise murdered them outright—but without plunder or outrage—and threw not only Virginia but every slaveholding State into the Ibid., Sept. 24, 1831, p. 67; Oct. 15, pp. 130, 131, Lib. 1.155, 162, 170, 174 190; 2.6. wildest excitement. Of the whites fifty-five thus perished; the blacks, quickly dispersed and hunted, yielded at least a hundred victims, of whom many were doubtless innocent. The deluded prophet, more fortunate than some of his followers, was hung: their fles