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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)
of the abolitionists in a series of quotations from the speeches and writings of Webster, Channing, and Clay, and from the first article of the Constitution of Massachusetts. It was not easy for a Union-saving mob of Webster idolators to take exception to, or howl down, a resolution beginning: Resolved, That (to quote the language years before, and the North was Ante, 2.75; Lib. 31.74, 90. warned that peace without freedom would be no peace. Gen. Butler's gratuitous offer to use his Massachusetts troops in putting down any slave insurrection was still eliciting the indignant comments of the Northern press when, presto, change! the astute General openedation which each day made more inevitable, could have pointed not only to the bitter opposition of the Border States, but to the timidity of the Republicans of Massachusetts, who declined, at their State Convention in October, to respond to Mr. Oct. 1. Sumner's eloquent address to them and to pass resolutions approving his utteran
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 2: the hour and the man.—1862. (search)
to read the President's remarks with either gravity or indignation, but it is quite otherwise with the pathetic story of the dismal collapse of the experiment in colonization actually made in Hayti. See Mr. Charles K. Tuckerman's account in the Magazine of American History for October, 1886; also, Lib. 34: 55. For a clever travesty by Orpheus C. Kerr (R. H. Newell) of the President's talk to the colored delegation, see Lib. 32: 140. Early in August Mr. Garrison visited Williamstown, Mass., and delivered an address before the Adelphic Union Aug. 4, 1862. Society of Williams College, which had extended the first invitation of the kind ever received by him. My college oration is almost completed, Ms. he wrote to Oliver Johnson, on July 31, and will be entirely so to-day. I have written it out in full, as you and McKim advised, and so I feel great relief in knowing certainly what I am going to say. But, oh! the bondage and drawback of reading it, as though I had never seen it
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)
e subject (Greeley's American Conflict, 2: 523, 524). and whose bitterness would be intensified by the sight of their Massachusetts flag. He had not, however, anticipated the test that was soon to be brought home to himself. When it became evidents intense, her anxiety beyond expression. . . . It was a proud day for the great War Governor of John A. Andrew. Massachusetts when, in the presence of Garrison and Phillips, he delivered the State and national colors for the regiment into the nthusiastic greetings along the entire route, and displaying as soldierly discipline and bearing as any regiment that Massachusetts had sent to the war. As they marched down State Street, singing the John Brown song, Mr. Garrison stood, by chance, od day's sessions were by Henry Ward Beecher, just returned from his English Ante, p. 77. triumphs, Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, whom the Henry Wilson. Convention greeted with especial warmth for his part in abolishing slavery in the District o
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 4: the reelection of Lincoln.—1864. (search)
asion of a formal reception tendered to Mr. Thompson by leading citizens of Massachusetts, the name of John A. Andrew heading the list. Governor Andrew presided witas he came forward to express his delight at the atonement which Boston and Massachusetts were now offering. Addressing the Governor, he said: Sir, it has been y and Thanksgiving proclamations with the exclamation: God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts! Now, sir, in view of the altered state of things among us, in view of this glorious meeting, justly and fairly representing the people of Massachusetts, and in view of the fact that your Excellency is here to preside on this occasion, I have to say that at last I believe Massachusetts is saved—saved from her old pro-slavery subserviency and degradation—saved from her blind, selfish, calculati4. county, a single town or hamlet in his support. Who represents him from Massachusetts, on the call for the Cleveland Convention? Two men, both non-voters, I bel
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 5: the Jubilee.—1865. (search)
the general respect and confidence which he now enjoyed. His opinions were sought and his influence solicited by men prominent in public or political life, and in a way at times quite amusing to him, as when one of the Republican leaders of Massachusetts begged him to urge Mr. Lincoln to summon Governor Andrew to his Cabinet. The President recognizes you as one of the Powers— Ms. Jan. 18, 1865, J. M. Forbes to W. L. G. a Radical with a substratum of common sense and practical wisdom. He wiliberty and justice, of courage and perseverance. He was for putting aside all calculations on consequences, and doing right, giving justice, and establishing freedom. . . . For . . . his fearless fight for liberty in America, his native State of Massachusetts had then only vituperation and imprisonment and stones and the hangman's halter to bestow upon him. But now it has come to pass that a citizen of South Carolina, upon whose soil he dared not set his foot twenty-five years ago, lest he be
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 7: the National Testimonial.—1866. (search)
great John A. Andrew. heartiness, and wrote the Address to the Public, to which a national character was unmistakably given by the approving signatures—gladly appended in every case— of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and Chief Justice of Massachusetts, the State's Senators and Representatives in Congress, Senators and Representatives from sixteen other States (including Missouri), the Chief Justice of the United States, the President of the Senate, the eminent L. S. Foster. poets and littme good cause—that of the Hon. James Speed of Kentucky, late Attorney-General of the United States—the names of Senators and Representatives in Congress from Maine to Oregon—the names of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and Chief Justice of Massachusetts—the names of eminent merchants, lawyers, collegiate professors, poets, philanthropists, editors, etc., etc. In view of a list so broadly representative, and distinguished for such intellectual, moral, and political weight—added to this
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)
bor with the Revenue Cutter, which Collector Russell offered for the purpose, but a heavy rain Thomas Russell. prevented this. Mr. Waterston, of the Testimonial Rev. Robert C. Waterston. Committee, announced to Mr. Garrison that Thirty Thousand Dollars had been collected and placed to his credit, and as the Cuba swung into the stream and began her voyage, the guns of the gaily dressed Revenue Cutter fired a parting salute in his honor, which was repeated by the boys of the School Ship Massachusetts, who manned the yards of that vessel and gave three rousing cheers. The voyage to Liverpool was quick and uneventful. May 9-18, 1867. Mr. Garrison proceeded directly to Paris, parting with Mr. Thompson at London, and crossing the Channel, for May 20. the first time, between Folkestone and Boulogne. The wretched accommodation for passengers on the Channel steamers amazed him, and in trying to compute the yearly aggregate of misery caused thereby to tens of thousands of travellers, h
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 9: Journalist at large.—1868-1876. (search)
ncery to whom the matter was John Codman. referred by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, coincided in this view, and, acting upon his recommendation, the Court dirn which marked the autumn of 1867, the opponents of the prohibitory law in Massachusetts succeeded in electing a Legislature pledged to its repeal, and the announceated in other places, he predicted a speedy reaction in favor of the law in Massachusetts, and of the Republican party in the country at large; and at a great temper enactment of a bill for compulsory military drill in the public schools of Massachusetts, which had already passed 1865. its second reading in the Legislature. Onarty approval of this assembly, and at no distant day that of the people of Massachusetts and of the whole country. . . . Gentlemen, the object which has broughensive; not for any one interest in special, but for all interests; not for Massachusetts alone, but for the whole country. Its realization cannot fail to bring gre
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 11: last years.—1877-79. (search)
volume. Of the Ante, 2.10. eyewitnesses of the affair who were present, Wendell Phillips, James N. Buffum, and A. Bronson Alcott gave their recollections, and the occasion was one of rare interest and pleasure. The following frank note which Mr. Garrison wrote to Mr. Phillips at the close of this eventful month, had reference to a financial tract which the latter had written, and to his strange support of General Butler as a Benj. F. Butler. candidate for the gubernatorial chair of Massachusetts. W. L. Garrison to Wendell Phillips. Roxbury, Oct. 30, 1878. Ms. copy. my dear Phillips: . . . Thanks for your tract on the money question — a question which I do not profess to have mastered in all its bearings, though I do not deem it a difficult matter to discriminate between that which carries intrinsic value with it, and that which possesses no such value; in other words, between gold and a paper promise which may or may not be redeemed. With me, however, it is a very
no other precept, he wrote in the Liberator (16: 18), if I leave them no other example, it shall be a fearless, impartial, thorough investigation of every subject to which their attention may be called, whether those principles agree or conflict with my own, or with those of any other person. but almost rated it a moral delinquency that his sons, one and all, eschewed the razor. Here may belong an anecdote related to me by Oliver Johnson. A good abolitionist in the rural districts of Massachusetts, who went down to Boston to annual meetings and conventions, was filled with a great admiration for Charles Burleigh, concerning whom he carried back glowing reports to his family. In the fulness of time he arranged a lecture in his own town for Burleigh, and was sorely troubled when the one stage arrival brought not the expected guest. An hour after, a knock was heard at the door, and the curious children scrambled pell-mell to answer it. There stood a tall figure with long beard and