John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison

Index

Abolition, Southern view of, 24, 48; and Antislavery societies, 48; new type of, 49, 50; opposed by official classes in North, 50, 51; in history, 61, 62; J. Q. Adams and, 91, 92; in 1830 and 1840, 97; an accepted fact, Io3; really a servile uprising, 119; progress of, 128, 134ff.; and Woman's Rights, 153, 154; conservative opponents of, 199, 200; leaders in,200;a disease, 228; G. the leader of, 242. And see Abolitionists, Anti-slavery,Channing, Emerson, R. W., May, S. J.

Abolitionists, and free speech, 27; W. E. Channing and, 27, 28, 88; and Turner's rebellion, 51, 52; paradoxical fate of, 59,60; and G.'s Thoughts on African Colonization, 65; attempt to put down, in 1835-6, 99 if.; how viewed by the average man, 005; persecution of, 105 if.; in Boston, 112, 113; and T. Lyman, 122; and the murder of Lovejoy, 129 ff.; in New York, course of, 147 ff.; conservative, form the New Organization, 153; quarrels among, 177 ff.; discovered the horrors of slavery, 188; and Emerson, 226, 227; certain ante-bellum doings of, 244 if.; and English liberals, 249, 250. And see Abolition, Antislavery, Lunt Committee, National Anti-Slavery Society, Rynders Mob, Thompson.

Adams, Charles Francis, 250.

Adams, John, 49.

Adams, John Quincy, not an Abolitionist, 88, 89; character of, 89, go; his service in Congress in old age, 90-92; and Massachusetts, 92; 7,50. African Repository, The, 63, 64.

agitator, what is an? 10. [280]

Alcott, A. Bronson, 80.

Andrew, John A., 243.

Anti-Slavery, G. and, 97 if.; G.'s conduct during Boston mob an exemplification of the policy, 117; political history of, where to be found, 136; meeting at Broadway Tabernacle, 203 if.; a sort of special illumination, 228; agitation in Edinburgh, 246; meeting in London, 246, 247. And see Abolition, Abolitionists, National Anti-Slavery Society.

Anti-Slavery League, organized by G. in London, 246, 247.

Anti-Slavery societies in 1830, 47, 48; overslaughed by Abolition, 48; 123, 134, 135, 15I, 176ff.

association, theory of, 31.

Atlee, Edwin P., 73, 74.

Austin, James T., 130, 131.

Baltimore, and the slavetrade, 46; G. jailed at, for libel, 46, 47.

Baptists, and Abolition, 208.

Bartlett, Deacon, 41.

Beecher, Harriet, 102. And see Stowe, Harriet Beecher.

Beecher, Henry Ward, quoted, 249.

Beecher, Lyman, 66 and n., 67, 68, 69.

Benson, George, 107.

Benson, Henry, quoted, 106.

Benton, Thomas H., 7.

Bible, the, the source of G.'s power, 164-166.

Birney, James G., 103, 018, 118.

Bond, George, 128.

Boston, G. mobbed in, 101, 102, 113 if.; Abolitionists in, 112, 113; Pro-slavery men in, 120, 121; Garrison mob in, the sticking-point of violence in, 118. And see Faneuil Hall, Park St. Church.

Boston aristocracy, and J. Q. Adams, 92.

Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 113.

Boston Tea Party, and the murder of Lovejoy, 130, 131.

Bowditch, Henry I., quoted, 19, 20 and n.; 21, 108, 123.

Bradford, Gamaliel, 127, 128.

Bright, John, quoted, 249; 96, 251.

British working-classes, and G., 249, 250; and the Civil War, 250. [281]

Broadway Tabernacle, Anti-slavery meeting at. See Rynders Mob.

Brougham, Henry, Lord, quoted, in Thompson, 92.

Brown, John, and Northern opinion, 257.

Buchanan, James, 23, 258.

Buffum, Arnold, 71.

Bunyan, John, 35.

Burleigh, C. C., quoted, in Boston Mob, 116; 73.

Buxton, Thomas F., 245, 246.

Cairnes, J. E., 251.

Calhoun, John C., 7, 23, 140, 158, 193, 208.

Canterbury, Conn., Crandall case at, 70 if.

Chamberlain, Daniel H., quoted, 243.

Channing, William Ellery, and the slavery question, 26 f., 87, 88; and Abolition, 27, 28, 81-86; and Follen, 29, 30; and the theory of association, 31; G. at his church, 31, 32, Ioo, 129, 133, 174, 224.

Charleston, S. C., postoffice at, broken into, 104, 105.

Charleston Courier, 187.

Cincinnati Convention (1853), 160.

Civil War, the, 4, 59, 60.

Clarkson, Thomas, 245, 251.

Clay, Cassius M., 159, 160.

Clay, Henry, G.'s strictures on, 191; 7.

Cobden, Richard, 251.

Colonization Society of 1830, 63 ff.; a sham reform, 63; destroyed by G., 65, 66; 244.

Compromise of 1850, 177, 258.

Constitution of U. S., Slavery and, 13, 15, 16, 140ff., 168ff., 172, 173; publicly burned by G., 174.

Constitutional Convention (1787), 9, 13.

Cooper Union, Emerson's speech at, 234 ff.

Copley, Josiah, quoted, 57.

Cottage Bible, the, 76.

Crandall, Prudence, case of, 70 if., indicted and convicted, 72, 73; 80, 106.

Crandall, Reuben, Io6.

Cromwell, Oliver, 165.

Daizwin, Charles, quoted, 252.

disunion, effect of threat of, 257, 258.

Douglas, Stephen A., 140, 241. [282]

Douglass, Frederick, in Boston, 19, 20 and n., 21; at Rynders Mob meeting, 215, 216, 217; 108, 210.

Dresser, Amos, flogging of, 75f.

Emancipation, Immediate, G. the apostle of, 47; genesis of, 47, 48; 238. Emancipator, the, quoted, 148-150.

Emerson, Edward W., quotes, 231.

Emerson, R. W., on the relations of North and South, 18; his Phi Beta Kappa address (1835) and G.'s at Park St. Church (1829), compared, 43-45; difference between G. and, 45, 46, 219ff.; his journal quoted, 223, 224, 225, 226; and the Abolitionists, 226,227,228; his lecture on “Thetimes,” quoted, 229, 230; and the mur. der of Lovejoy,231,234; his “New England reformers,” quoted, 233, 234; his Cooper Union speech (1854), quoted, 234ff.; 86.

England, philanthropists of, and the U. S., 245, 246; G. organizes Anti-Slavery League in, 246; why she did not recognize the Confederacy, 250, 251.

Episcopalians, and Abolition, 200, 208. EvANGELICALAlliance,the, slave-holders admitted to, 247; denounced by G. and Thompson, 247, 248.

Everett, Edward, quoted, 25, 26; and Abolition, 102, 103; 124, 138.

Faneuil Hall, meeting of friends of South in, IoI, Io9 if.; meeting in, on Lovejoy murder, 129 if.

Follen, Charles, death of, 28; Channing and proposed meeting in commemoration of, 29, 30; and the Lunt Committee, 124, 125.

Forster, William E., 96, 251.

Foster, Abby K., 210.

Francis of Assisi, 86.

Franklin, Benjamin, 41.

free States, and slave states, admitted to Union in pairs, 9.

Freedom, and Slavery, nature of contest between, 143.

Fremont, John C., 175.

Fry, Elizabeth, 246.

Fugitive Slave Law, 15, [283] 19I, 192, 235, 236, 237, 256.

Furness, William H., at Rynders Mob meeting, 205, 208, 210 ff., 218.

Garibaldi, Guiseppe, 193.

Garrison, Frances I. See Garrison, William L., Jr., and others.

Garrison, Wendell P. See Garrison, William L., Jr., and others.

Garrison, William Lloyd, his relation to the Antislavery period, 6; his view of slavery and its relation to the history of the U. S. from 1830 to 1860, 6; the strongest man in America, 7; his influence on the nation's course, 7, 8; effect of his first utterances on slavery, 17; and Channing, 28; at Channing's Church, 31,32; hisessential quality, 34; aggressiveness, 34ff.; first editorial in the Liberator, 35-41; early history, 41, 42; persuaded by Lundy to enter on what was to be his life-work, 42, 43; edits Genius of Universal Emancipation, 43, 46; address at Park St. Church (1829) 43, 44, compared with Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address, 43-45; difference between Emerson and, 45, 46, 219 if.; jailed at Baltimore for libel, 46, 47; founds Liberator, 47; apostle of Immediate Emancipation, 47; reward offered forhisarrest,by Georgia Legislature, 48, 49, 256; and J. Q. Adams, 50; indicted in No. Carolina, 50; and Hayne, 53, 54; and the Liberator, 57; and the Colonization Society, 63 ff.; his Thoughts on African Colonization, 63, 64, 65; his Thoughts, etc. and the Lane Seminary Controversy, 68 ff.; his first Boston address, 77 ff.; brings George Thompson to U. S., 92; his real work done between 1830 and 1840, 97 if., 136, 137; his methods, 98, 99, 192 ff.; and the Boston mob, 101, 102, 13 ff., 118, 119, 122; his language and conduct, 112; quoted, 123; leaves Boston, 123; his solution of the constitutional puzzle, 140; and the National Anti-Slavery Society, 152; his views on various matters, 153, [284] 155, 156; an outcome of slavery, 158; his life, written by his children, 158 if.; his character, 158ff.; a man of action, 162; the Bible the source of his powers, 164-166; quoted, on the “compact” concerning slavery, 168 ff., 172, 173; burns the Constitution, 174; unity of his course, 174; his dealings with Anti-slavery societies, 176ff.; his want of continuityof thought, 180;his strong language, 181, 189;on Henry Clay, 19I; what kind of man he really was, 194ff.; R. D. Webb and others quoted on, 195-198; at Broadway Tabernacle (RyndersMob),201,205ff.;the leader of Abolition from inception to triumph, 242; his position at close of the war, 243; his visits to England, 244, 245; organizesAntiSlavery League in London, 246, 247; denounces Evangelical Alliance, 247, 248; relations with British philanthropists, 248, 249; and British workingmen, 249; in England in 1867, 251, 252; and the firing on in Fort Sumter, 259.

Garrison, W. L., Jr., and others, Life of G., quoted, 106-108, 159 if., 203 ff.

Garrison, Mrs., Fanny Lloyd, G.'s mother, 41.

Gay, Sydney H., 210. Genius of Universal Emancipation, the, edited by Lundy, 42; by G., 43, 46.

Georgia, Legislature of, offers reward for arrest and conviction of G., 48, 49, 256.

Goodell, William, 127.

Grant, “Professor,” 214, 215.

Greeley, Horace, 216.

Green, Beriah, 74, 75.

Gurney, Samuel, 245, 251.

Harrington, Judge, 140.

Harris, Miss, colored pupil of P. Crandall, 70, 71.

Hayne, Robert Y., Webster's reply to, 14; appeals to Otis against G., 53; Liberator, quoted on, 53, 54.

Henry, Patrick, 215.

Herndon, William H., quoted, 259, 260.

Holmes, 0. W., 230.

Hopkins, John H., his View of Slavery, 200.

Hopper, Isaac T., 210. [285]

Houghton, Lord, 251.

Hovey, Charles F., 210.

Howitts, the, 246.

Hughes, Thomas, 251.

Hutchinsons, the, 211, 212. Impartial Citizen, the, 217.

Jackson, Andrew, quoted, 102; 7, 103, 210.

Jackson, Edmund, 210.

Jackson, Francis, 114, 123, 206, 210, 212.

Jackson, Thomas J. (Stonewall), 24.

Jay, William, quoted, 148, 150, 155, 156; and Antislavery societies, 150, 151, 153; 157.

Jefferson, Thomas, quoted, on slavery, 13; III.

Johnson, Oliver, his William Lloyd Garrison and his Times, quoted, 58, 63-65, 66-68, 69, 70, 71, 75, 76 G.'s right-hand man, 66; editor of Liberator, 66.

Kane, Thomas L., 212.

KANSAs-Nebraska Bill, 256.

Kendall, Amos, 105.

Knapp, Isaac, 56, 57.

Kossuth, Louis, 216.

Lane Seminary, controversy over, 66 ff.; history of, 66, 67.

Lee, Robert E., 24. Liberator, the, G.'s first editorial in, 35-41; founded by G., 47, 56; Southern campaign against, 51, 52; and Hayne, 53, 54; office of, 57, 58; office of, closed, 123, 124; 82, 97, 98, 99, 148, 150, 152, 153, 167, 168, 179, 189.

Lincoln, Abraham, assassination of, 5; and slavery, 143, 144; his enforced moderation, 145, 146; and emancipation, 147; 97, 140, 165, 171, 175, 241, 243, 259.

Louisiana Purchase, 9, Io.

Louisiana territory, slavery in, 9.

Lovejoy, Elijah P., murder of, and its effect,128 if.; Emerson on, 231, 232; 117, 119, 238.

Lundy, Benjamin, 42, 43, 46.

Lunt, George, 124, 125, 127.

Lunt Committee, 124 f.

Luther, Martin, 35, 193.

Lyman, Theodore, Mayor of Boston, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 122, 123.

McCarthy, Justin, 251.

McDuffie, George, 127.

MacAULAYulay, Zachary, 245. [286]

Martineau, Harriet, quoted, 195, 196, 248; her Martyr Age in America, 245; 105, 124.

Massachusetts, southern attempt to enslave, 010-Io3. And see Boston.

Matthew, Saint, Gospel of, quoted, 181-84.

May, Samuel, Jr., 210, 211, 212.

May, Samuel J., quoted, 73-75, 78-80, 81-86, 93-95, 196-98; converted to Abolition by G., 77 ff.; the angel of Anti-slavery, 78; and G., 80, 81; and the Lunt Committee, 124, 126, 127; 29, 32, 71, 138, 150, 227.

Methodists, and Abolition, 208.

Mill, John Stuart, 251.

Milton, John, 165.

Missouri, admission of, with slavery, Io.

Missouri Compromise, 10, 25, 256, 258; repeal of, 10, 256, 258.

Nashville, vigilance committee at, 76.

National Anti-Slavery Society founded, 73 if.; 151. National Intelligencer, the, appeals to Otis, 52, 53.

negro, the, how related to the beginning of the struggle between North and South, 25 f.

New Organization, the, 153, 154.

New Testament, the, and slavery's apologists, 200, 201.

New York Herald, denounces G., 201-203; on Rynders Mob, 207 ff.

North Carolina, G. indicted in, 50. O'Connell, Daniel, 245, 246.

Otis, Harrison Gray, and Southern attacks on G., 50 ff.; quoted, in the Liberator, 54, 55; a silhouette of, 56; at Faneuil Hall, I II, I 12.

Otis, James, 49, 56.

Park St. Church, G.'s address at, the beginning of his mission, 43.

Parker, Theodore, 220, 259.

Pease, Elizabeth, 246.

Pennsylvania Hall, Phila., burning of, 119, 133.

Pharisees, Christ's rebuke to, 181-84; their offenses mild compared with the atrocities of today, 185, 186. [287] Philanthropist, the, 108.

Phillips, Wendell, at Fanueil Hall, 129, 130-32; effect of his speech, 132, 133; quoted, 180, 198; 108, 123, 165, 210, 249.

Pierpont, John, 43.

Polk, James K., 204.

Presbyterians, and Abolition, 208.

Pro-Slavery Democrats, Northern, 23.

Quincy, Edmund, 210.

Rankin, John, 160.

Reformer, the, 54.

Republican Party, formation of, 142, 143,258.

Rhodes, James F., 142.

Richmond Whig, quoted, 104, 119.

Roman Catholics, and Abolition, 200, 207. Ross, Abner, 187.

Rynders, Isaiah, his history, 203, 204.

Rynders Mob, the, 203ff.

Savonarola, Girolamo, 193.

Scott, Dred, case of, 257.

Sewall, Samuel E., 80.

Seward, W. H., 143, 1144.

Slave, the, beginning of G.'s devotion to, cause of, 42.

Slave-holding classes, manhood crushed out of, 22.

Slave Power, attempts to put down Abolition, 99 ff.; politics of the North controlled by, 138. And see Slavery.

Slave states, and free . states, admitted to Union in pairs, 9.

Slave trade, constitutional provision concerning, 15; what it was, 15.

Slavery in the U. S., question of, overshadowing from 1830 to 1865, 2 if.; from G.'s point of view, 6, 7; a sleeping serpent in early years of U. S., 9; admission of Missouri and, 01; on every man's mind after 1820, 12; national policy of silence concerning, 13, 14, 15; reaction against that policy, 16 ff.; effect of G.'s first utterance on, 17; W. E. Channing and, 26ff.; attitudeof Northern merchants toward, 32, 33; vulture quality of, 48; friends of, and Channing's pamphlet, 87,88; J. Q. Adams and, 91; death agony of, began in 1830, 137; and Freedom, nature of [288] contest between, 143; Lincoln and, 143 ff.; and the Constitution, 140 ff., 168 if.; attitude of South toward, 187, 188; horrors of, discovered by Abolitionists, 188; complicity of churches with, 200; Emerson and, 228; history of, review, 253 if.; influence of, North and South, 254. And see Colonization Society, Crandall, P., Lane Seminary, Lovejoy, E. P.

Slavery in West Indies, abolition of, 244.

Smith, Goldwin, 251.

South Carolina, 23, 137.

Spencer, Herbert, 251.

Sprague, Peleg, quoted, 95, 96; at Faneuil Hall, IiO, III.

Storrs, George, 107, 108.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 120, 187, 188.

Sturgis, William, 132.

Sumner, Charles, 123, 140.

Sumter, Fort, fired on, 259.

Taney, Roger B., 140.

Tappan, Arthur, 47, 67, 72,106, 107.

Taylor, Zachary, 200, 209, 210, 21I.

Texas, Annexation of, 138, 139, 155, 174, 238, 256.

Thatcher, Judge, 50.

Thompson, George, in U. S., 92 ff.; S. J. May and Sprague quoted on, 93-96; what he stood for, 96; plot to tar and feather, 113; 107, 118, 227, 245,247, 251.

Ticknor, George, 199. Tocsin of Liberty, the, quoted, 178.

Todd, Francis, “libeled” by G., 46, 47.

Tuckerman, Bayard, Life of Wm. Jay, quoted, 151.

Turner, Nat, heads Slave Rebellion, 51, 52.

Union, the, peaceful dissolution of, advocated, 155, 156.

United States, slavery question in, 1830 to 1865, 2 f., 6, 7; state of, 1850 to 1860, 01, 11; a slave republic, 17.

Virginia, 23.

Walker's appeal, 51.

Ward, Samuel R., 217.

Washington, George, 215.

Webb, Richard D., quoted, 195.

Webster, Daniel, his Reply to Hayne, 14; Channing and, 28; and the Fugitive Slave Law, [289] 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. [290]