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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 654 2 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 58 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 40 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 22 0 Browse Search
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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)
by the very success of the party in the national election, and by the rapid movement of the South towards Lib. 30.186, 189, 190. secession,—earnestly advocated the repeal of the law. They were reenforced by an address to the people of the Lib. 30.205. State signed by the weightiest members of the legal profession, as Judge Lemuel Shaw, ex-Judge Benjamin R. Curtis, Joel Parker, Sidney Bartlett, Theophilus Parsons, and by equally shining lights in the world of scholarship and letters, as George Ticknor, Jared Sparks, and the Rev. James Walker, President of Harvard College, by George Peabody, the Rev. George Putnam, ex-Governors Henry J. Gardner and Emory Washburn, and some thirty others, representing all parties. These citizens were moved (in the immoral jargon of that day) by a sense of responsibility to God for the preservation and transmission of the priceless blessings of civil liberty and public order which his providence has bestowed upon us. They would repeal the Personal Libe
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)
nt caused him many months of suffering, and effectually disabled him from any literary or other work for the rest of the year. It supplied, too, a sufficient reason for his not attempting a task to which he was strongly urged by his friends, namely, the preparation of a History of the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States. While he was at work on the last number of the Liberator, he had Dec. 27, 1865. received an earnest request to undertake such a work, from the publishing firm of Ticknor & Fields, who Ms. July 3, 1866. subsequently made a very liberal proposition to that end. Mr. Garrison provisionally accepted it, but he had many Ms. July 5. doubts and misgivings on the subject, and, after two years of alternating resolution and hesitation, he abandoned the idea. The only overt step he took towards it was the hiring of an office in the city, to which the files of 1868. the Liberator were taken for his examination and review; but the days and weeks he had proposed to de