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Newburyport (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
rait of Mr. Thompson in Harper's Weekly (Dec. 21, 1878), and sent a heliotype copy of the daguerreotype taken in 1851—the same from which the engraving in Vol. I. of this work was made—to nearly a hundred of his friends in England and America. rehearsing his labors and achievements, and paying a fervent tribute to his memory. The 13th of October was the sixtieth anniversary of 1878. Mr. Garrison's apprenticeship to the printing business, and by way of celebrating the event he visited Newburyport on the morning of the 12th, and once more essayed Saturday. the task of setting type in the office of the Herald. It proved to be the last time he ever visited his birthplace or handled the composing-stick. For copy he took three of his own sonnets,—the Freedom of the Mind, Ante, 1.179; 2.432, 433. that on Liberty, and the one written on his thirty-fifth birthday,—and he set them, the editor of the Herald Newburyport Herald, Oct. 14, 1878. testified, in a time which many a younger pr
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
Chinaman (Ms. Feb. 28), closely dissecting and answering Blaine's charges, and another from W. H. Besse, a New Bedford sea-captain, who testified warmly in favor of the Chinese, from thirty years knowledge of them (Ms. Feb. 27). From San Francisco came an unexpected letter from John A. Collins (ante, 2: 277), from whom Mr. Garrison had heard nothing directly or indirectly for many years, and a pleasant correspondence and interchange of photographs followed. To his friend A. J. Grover of Chicago, Mr. Garrison wrote (Ms. March 7): It is essentially the old anti-slavery issue in another form—whether one portion of mankind may rightfully claim superiority over another on account of birth, descent, or nativity, or for any other reason, and deny to them those rights and interests which pertain to our common humanity. After the successful struggle to emancipate the Southern bondmen from their chattelized condition and to elevate them to the plane of American citizenship, I did not imag
Rockledge (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
possibly be made; and I am particularly pleased that it has been achieved by a woman (Ms. Mar. 28, 1879, W. L. G. to F. G. V.). The bust, which is now (1889) at Rockledge, stands on a pedestal which brings it exactly to Mr. Garrison's height (5 feet 8 1/2 in.). An engraving of it forms the frontispiece of this work. He had spequal rights for each, for all, and forever, wherever the lot of man is cast within our broad domains! Yielding to the entreaties of his daughter, who visited Rockledge in April with her children, Mr. Garrison consented to follow her back to New York and place himself under the care of her family physician. He arrived at the Wehere the funeral services were held on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 28. The spacious church of the First Religious Society, on Eliot Square, Unitarian. near Rockledge, was kindly placed at the disposal of the family and the public, and was thronged by the multitude who came to take a last look at the face of their old friend a
San Francisco (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
am receiving on all hands the strongest expressions of satisfaction in regard to it. The Chinese Minister at Washington was one of the first to send his thanks. Among the many letters received by Mr. Garrison was one from Wong Ar Chong, an intelligent Chinaman (Ms. Feb. 28), closely dissecting and answering Blaine's charges, and another from W. H. Besse, a New Bedford sea-captain, who testified warmly in favor of the Chinese, from thirty years knowledge of them (Ms. Feb. 27). From San Francisco came an unexpected letter from John A. Collins (ante, 2: 277), from whom Mr. Garrison had heard nothing directly or indirectly for many years, and a pleasant correspondence and interchange of photographs followed. To his friend A. J. Grover of Chicago, Mr. Garrison wrote (Ms. March 7): It is essentially the old anti-slavery issue in another form—whether one portion of mankind may rightfully claim superiority over another on account of birth, descent, or nativity, or for any other reaso
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 11
estitute colored refugees from Mississippi and Louisiana who flock to Kansas. In April, 1879, he visits his daughter in New York for medical treatment, and dies in that city on May 24. his remains are interred in Boston. If his summer in Great Britain did not materially check the progress of the disease which had for years been undermining Mr. Garrison's health, it certainly must be credited with the fresh vigor and spirit which he manifested during the brief remainder of his life. In rev the triumph of the contest. In various Northern and Southern cities the colored Boston Philadelphia, Washington, Cincinnati, Raleigh, Atlanta. people met in memory of their illustrious champion. The leading papers of the United States and Great Britain contained long editorial and biographical articles on the founder of the anti-slavery movement, which were, with rare exceptions, appreciative and eulogistic. Even the very sheets which had formerly caricatured and reviled him, joined in the
Florence, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
lovely outlook upon the Hudson and Tappan Zee, playing at ninepins with his grandchildren, driving to Sleepy Hollow and other places in the vicinity, and making excursions up the river to the Military Academy at West Aug. 2, 8, 1878. Point, and to Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, by way Aug. 13. of contrast. He also spent a few days at Osterville, on Aug. 15-20. Cape Cod, and in September went to Philadelphia to see Lucretia Mott and other friends. In June he had been summoned to Florence, Mass., to speak at the funeral of Charles C. Burleigh, Mr. Burleigh came to a premature death through injuries received from a passing railroad train. For more than forty years, wrote Mr. Garrison of him, he was almost constantly in the lecturing field, during which period he travelled many thousands of miles, addressed hundreds of thousands of hearers, cheerfully encountering every hardship, serenely confronting mobocratic violence, shrinking from no peril, heedless of unescapable ridicu
Poughkeepsie (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
st, and September, 1878, he passed with his daughter and her family at Tarrytown, on the Hudson, a region appealing strongly to his love of the beautiful and romantic in nature. There he rested quietly for weeks, enjoying the lovely outlook upon the Hudson and Tappan Zee, playing at ninepins with his grandchildren, driving to Sleepy Hollow and other places in the vicinity, and making excursions up the river to the Military Academy at West Aug. 2, 8, 1878. Point, and to Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, by way Aug. 13. of contrast. He also spent a few days at Osterville, on Aug. 15-20. Cape Cod, and in September went to Philadelphia to see Lucretia Mott and other friends. In June he had been summoned to Florence, Mass., to speak at the funeral of Charles C. Burleigh, Mr. Burleigh came to a premature death through injuries received from a passing railroad train. For more than forty years, wrote Mr. Garrison of him, he was almost constantly in the lecturing field, during which p
Christmas (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
re your fond mother and my own. It is something curious that, while my mother was only fortyseven years old when she died, and I am now seventy-three, I feel my filial impulses bounding within me as though I were again a child, whenever I think of the possibility of coming into her presence; and though our ages are reversed according to earthly dates, there still seems to be the same relative distance between us, as to the point of time, that existed when she was here in the body. The Christmas holidays were again spent by him 1878. New York, and he came back apparently much brightened and refreshed by the week with his children and grandchildren there. Both in December and January he plied 1878-79. his pen busily. The suppression of the colored vote at the South, and the helplessness of the blacks under the new regime, constantly engaged his thoughts, and four letters from him on the subject were printed during January. N. Y. Tribune, Jan. 4 and 25, 1879; Boston Advertise
Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
the bulldozing tactics of the South Carolina whites in the campaign of 1876 followed. The two Senators from South Carolina, at Washington, Hampton and Butler, wrote Mr. Garrison in his letter on the Exodus (April 22, 1879), are occupying seats to which they were not honestly elected, and their faces should become crimson every time they enter the Senate Chamber. If they had their deserts, instead of presenting their brazen visages in the Capitol, Hampton would be in the penitentiary, and Hamburg massacre Butler be lying in a grave of infamy, according as crimes are adjudged and punished in a civilized community (Boston Traveller, April 24, 1879). In these he urged that the cry of the bloody shirt, Boston Advertiser, Jan. 13, 1879. that awful symbol (yet but faintly expressive) of the gory tragedies that have been performed at the sacrifice of a hecatomb of loyal white and colored victims, be made the rallying cry of the Republican party in the next Presidential campaign. The
Amsterdam (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
g sense was of weariness— frequently expressed in a desire to go home—rather than in acute bodily pain, though that was not wanting. Once, in a wandering moment, he asked: Am I in England? his mind evidently reverting to his last happy visit there. What do you want, Mr. Garrison? said his physician to him on the morning of the 23d. To finish it up! was the reply. The wish was not long denied. That evening his children sang for him the old hymns of which he was so fond,—Ward, Hebron, Amsterdam, Christmas, Lenox (the last three especial favorites), Denmark, Portuguese Hymn, Coronation, Confidence, and Old Hundred. He could no longer speak, but he manifested his pleasure and consciousness by beating time both with his hands and feet, and was evidently happy in listening to the familiar words of spiritual cheer. An hour or two later the great change began; but so strong was his vitality that he lingered, unconscious, for twenty-four hours, and expired peacefully at a few minutes <
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