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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)
on the subject, it is because the exigency was not anticipated. . . . Penal statutes against treasonable and seditious publications are necessary in all communities. We have them for our own protection; if they should include provisions for the protection of our neighbors it would be no additional encroachment upon the liberty of the press. But all such protestations went for nothing: the South had no patience to wait for their translation into censorship, or even into mobs. At Milledgeville, Georgia, in the State Senate, the practical Mr. Nesbit introduced, on the 29th of November, 1831, a resolution offering a reward of—dollars for the apprehension of Mr. Garrison, which finally took the following shape: In Senate, November 30, 1831. Laws of Georgia for 1831, p. 255; Lib. 3.123. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met. That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to be p
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
such magistrates, as the tendency is to interrupt the harmony of the two countries, the libel assumes a still more criminal character. An extract from this charge was copied into the Liberator without comment from Mr. Garrison, who some time afterwards makes a single allusion to it as absurd and dangerous, and notices that it has been hailed with Lib. 2.119. joy by the whole tribe of Southern men-stealers and their insane apologists at the North. Such doctrines, exclaimed the Milledgeville (Ga.) Journal, will stand the test of all time. But Mr. Garrison did not underrate their value: they were obsolete as soon as uttered. Protests were raised against the charge in the Boston Com- Lib. 2.69. mercial Gazette, and, after its appearance in full in the quarterly American Jurist, in the newly-founded Boston Atlas; the former writer pointing out that if a mere tendency, apart from intent, was sufficient to make a misdemeanor, the same doctrine was applicable to the tariff disc