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Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Author's note (search)
Author's note The facts relating to the life of Garrison and the anti-slavery struggle recited in this volume were gathered from the monumental work, William Lloyd Garrison, The Story of His Life Told by His Children (Four Volumes, Octavo, Houghton, Miffin and Company, Boston, Mass.), a fascinating book which should be found upon the shelves of every public library in America. From lips that Sinai's trumpet blew We heard a tender under-song; Thy very wrath from pity grew, From love of man thy hate of wrong. Whittier, To Garrison.
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 1: the Liberator (search)
enticeship of seven years expired, Garrison was practically the subeditor of the newspaper. At twenty-one he had a journal of his own, the Free Press, in his native town, and he distinguished his six months interest in this sheet by discovering Whittier. The future poet was then a clumsy, half-taught farmer's lad of eighteen. He had already begun to write verses, and his sister, without his knowledge, sent some of them to the Free Press. Garrison at once recognized their merit and published them. He drove over to Haverhill to see the author and found him working in the fields barefoot. It was this encouragement that confirmed Whittier in his career and induced him to seek further education. As Garrison's venture at home was not sufficiently successful, he removed to Boston. Two years later he is editor of the first total abstinence paper ever published, the National Philanthropist, and in its columns he also declares his opposition to war. The year 1828 was the turning poin
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 2: the Boston mob (search)
to the portrait of Washington and invoked his example on behalf of the slave-holders. The sum of three thousand dollars was offered in the South for the apprehension of Arthur Tappan, the New York philanthropist. At Concord (auspicious name!) Whittier was pelted with stones and mud. A Harvard professor lost his chair on account of his Abolition sentiments, and leading Northern publishers took pains to assure the South that they would print nothing hostile to slavery. This ignominious subservouse might be destroyed. The biographers of Garrison call attention to the attitude of the authorities during this episode. Law officers in abundance overlooked the scene of the mob; the legislators, in special session at the state house-John G. Whittier among them-hastened down to become spectators. Law was everywhere, but justice was fallen in the streets. ... Wendell Phillips, commencing practice in his native city, and not versed, perhaps, in the riot statutes, wondered why his regimen
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 4: Constitution and conscience (search)
; and that honorable body complied with his request. President Pierce, a New Hampshire man, ordered out the troops to make sure the delivery of the unfortunate captive. Congress, bent upon proving that it was as much enslaved to the slave-holders as the Negroes themselves, in obedience to its task-masters, swept aside the Missouri Compromise, and passed the Nebraska Bill, which opened to slavery a vast region which had been solemnly dedicated by the same body to freedom. True indeed were Whittier's lines: And Law, an unloosed maniac, strong, Blood-drunken, through the blackness trod, Hoarse-shouting in the ear of God The blasphemy of wrong. We may readily imagine the frame of mind in which these events left Garrison. At the 4th of July celebration of the Abolitionists at Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1854, he made an address in the open air, in the course of which he produced a copy of the Fugitive Slave Law, and setting fire to it, burned it to ashes. And let all people s
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 7: Garrison the prophet (search)
mporary history was being transacted in an obscure garret? Their minds were occupied with the doings of Congress and the dispatches from London and Paris, but the real motive power of society rarely shows itself on the surface. What man who looked on at the Boston mob of 1835 would have supposed for a moment that the hatless, coatless, bewildered victim of the crowd would conquer in the end, and that the men who were threatening him would live to be ashamed of their cause? I think it was Whittier who advised young men to seek for some just and despised cause and attach themselves to it. Even from the standpoint of worldly wisdom, this is not such bad advice. The man who loses his life finds it. Garrison might have become a leading editor, or author, or poet, or statesman (for he possessed the gifts necessary for these callings), and he might have left a comfortable fortune to his children; but it is doubtful if in any other way than as a prophet he would have won a monument for him