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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
office in your midst. . . . I go, Sir, for revolution! Mr. Chairman, while I have been sitting here this afternoon, I have noticed quite a number of young men in this assembly, and I have asked myself, What course will they take? Here are three sitting near me—neither of them, twenty years ago, had any existence; two of them, the sons of the man who was dragged through the streets of Boston, and one, your own grandson. Francis Jackson Meriam, afterwards one of John Brown's men at Harper's Ferry (Sanborn's Life of John Brown, p. 546). I ask, What course will these young men, now in the bloom of early manhood, pursue? Will they take hold and help us in this cause, or will they go on in supporting and strengthening that Power which has so long ruled the nation? Will the young men take their stand, and throw off this incubus? I say, Mr. Chairman, let us strike for revolution. Let us drive slavery from our soil, and never allow a man to be put on trial on the question whether
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 19: John Brown.—1859. (search)
Brown, with Lib. 29.167; Sanborn's Life of Brown, p. 552. eighteen companions, seized the United States armory at Harper's Ferry, Va. Twenty-four hours later, Col. Robert E. Lee, despatched from Washington with a company of marines, retook the builolitical abolitionists were generally passed over in the search for Brown's accomplices which immediately began after Harper's Ferry—through the Democratic press, and then through the Senatorial investigating Lib. 29.194, 207. committee directed by ing those that are in bonds as bound with them ; that when he affirms, that he had no other motive for his conduct at Harper's Ferry except to break the chains of the oppressed, by the shedding of the least possible amount of human blood, he speaks t's ends, the epithet did not apply to Garrison. Had, moreover, the Liberator not preceded John Brown, the attempt on Harper's Ferry not only would have seemed the height of madness, but would have made hardly a ripple on the surface of American poli
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 20: Abraham Lincoln.—1860. (search)
rrison hails the secession of South Carolina as the end of the old Union and of slavery. The lamentable tragedy at Harper's Ferry is clearly traceable to the unjustifiable attempt to force slavery into Kansas by a repeal of the Missouri Compromiseing of John Brown. It was the historic truth; and the work of Nemesis had but begun. Directly after the attack on Harper's Ferry, the South initiated disunion by fortifying itself against domestic insurrection, both by extra vigilance and armed p Lib. 30.171. or over the perennial fear of slave risings, such as infected Lib. 29.187, 191. the whole South after Harper's Ferry, and in the summer and autumn of 1860 raged afresh, so that, as President Lib. 30.137, 141, 146, 149, 163, 171, 177,The North bade them good-bye with a smile at their silliness, and turned an incredulous ear to the Southern echoes of Harper's Ferry in both Houses of Congress. Had not Fremont's possible election in 1856 been made the ground Ante, p. 435. of threa