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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 4: no union with slaveholders!—1844. (search)
slavery character, and of making the dissolution of the Union our main measure, was the question of the Convention. The debates were very fine. That is, Garrison and Phillips did admirably, C. C. Burleigh very well indeed, on the one side, and Pierpont, Amasa Walker, Hildreth Rev. J. Pierpont. Richard Hildreth. ( Archy Moore The first anti-slavery novel, by the future historian of the United States; the sub-title being The White Slave. It was published towards the close of 1836, and had avor of acting under the existing Government, or, rather, the casuistry by which swearing to do wicked things which at the time you don't mean to do was justified, were enough to convince any reasonable person of the truth of what they opposed. Pierpont's speech was the most extraordinary piece of Jesuitism that I ever heard. The world's people among the audience were shocked at it. An old president of a bank, no abolitionist, who was in from curiosity, told me that the business of the world c
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 10: the Rynders Mob.—1850. (search)
to the clergy of Massachusetts. Lib. 20.162, 177. The short-sighted framers of the Fugitive Slave Law had good reasons for not anticipating the revolt which it actually caused among the clergy, limited and partial as this was. See a list of higher-law sermons, mostly preached in Massachusetts, in Lib. 21: 46. For instance, the chances were that the Unitarian Convention at Springfield, Mass., in the fall of Lib. 20.178. 1850, would reject resolutions denouncing the law. In fact, John Pierpont having presented such, Dr. Parkman Rev. Francis Parkman. gave as chairman a casting vote to lay them on the table, though avowing his willingness to harbor fugitives. Dr. Gannett deprecated discussion and all action, as being Rev. E. S. Gannett. liable to be misunderstood. Nevertheless, the resolutions were called up and passed, and other religious conventions Lib. 20.166, 178. took a similar stand, and the new phase of the old moral issue began again the work of dividing the denomi