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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 4: pictures of the struggle (search)
reports of the society, from the pages of its official organ, the African Repository, and from the speeches of its leading champions in all parts of the country. It was impossible to set this evidence aside, and equally so to resist the conclusions drawn therefrom. The work could not be, and therefore was not answered. The book made a tremendous sensation and became the arsenal of the Abolitionists in this country and of their exponents abroad. It was early in 1852, I think, says Elizur Wright, that Mr. Garrison struck the greatest blow of his life-or any man's life-by publishing in a thick pamphlet, with all the emphasis that a printer knows how to give to types, his Thoughts on Colonization. The Colonization Society was an embodiment of the public consciousness. It was prevalent, it was a part of the people's daily life. All the great divines belonged to it, all the academic bigwigs, social figure-heads and moneyed men. And yet, in fact, Colonization was a sort of obscene
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 5: the crisis (search)
rudence Crandall, was thrown into a noisome jail in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, on a charge of circulating Tappan, Garrison & Company's papers, encouraging the negroes to insurrection, for which a mob would fain have lynched him. . . . It was nearly a year before he was brought to trial, and meantime his health had been ruined. Five thousand dollars were offered on the Exchange in New York for the head of Arthur Tappan on Friday last, writes Henry Benson to Garrison. Elizur Wright is barricading his house with shutters, bars and bolts. How imminent is the danger that hovers about the persons of our friends, George Thompson and Arthur Tappan! writes Garrison to George Benson. Rewards for the seizure of the latter are multiplying — in one place they offer three thousand dollars, for his ears--a purse has been made up, publicly, of $20,000, in New Orleans for his person. I, too,--I desire to bless God, --am involved in almost equal peril. I have just received
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
rge, 215. Webb, Richard D., quoted, 195. Webster, Daniel, his Reply to Hayne, 14; Channing and, 28; and the Fugitive Slave Law, 235, 236, 238; Abolitionists and, 239; 138, 140, 199. Weld, Theodore D., 69, 187. Wells, E. M. P., 200. white, James C., quoted, 56. Whittier, John G., 43. wise, Henry A., 187. wise, John S., The End of an Era, 187, 188. Woman's Rights, and Abolition, 153, 154; 167. Woolfolk, Austin, 42. Wright, Elizur, quoted, 5; 107. Wright, Henry C., 210. rge, 215. Webb, Richard D., quoted, 195. Webster, Daniel, his Reply to Hayne, 14; Channing and, 28; and the Fugitive Slave Law, 235, 236, 238; Abolitionists and, 239; 138, 140, 199. Weld, Theodore D., 69, 187. Wells, E. M. P., 200. white, James C., quoted, 56. Whittier, John G., 43. wise, Henry A., 187. wise, John S., The End of an Era, 187, 188. Woman's Rights, and Abolition, 153, 154; 167. Woolfolk, Austin, 42. Wright, Elizur, quoted, 5; 107. Wright, Henry C., 210.