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William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 The Story Of His Life Told By His Children

Francis Jackson Garrison

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Ancestry.— 1764-1805

Ancestry.— 1764-1805

Daniel Palmer removes from Rowley, Mass., to the River St. John, N. B., where his daughter Mary marries Joseph Garrison. Their son Abijah marries Fanny Lloyd of Deer Island, N. B. From Nova Scotia this couple remove in 1805 to Newburyport, Mass., where William Lloyd Garrison is born to them. The scenic glories of the River St. John, New Brunswick, are well past on the ascent when, on the right, the obscure outlet of the Jemseg is reached. The hills on either shore have both diminished and recede

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Boyhood.— 1805-1818

Boyhood.— 1805-1818

Lloyd shares the poverty and hardship to which his father's desertion reduces the family. He receives a very slender education at the public schools, is apprenticed shoemaker, cabinet-maker, and finally printer in the Newburyport Herald office. Few New England towns preserve so well the aspect which they wore at the close of the last and the beginning of the present century, or have been so little affected, externally, by the changes and vicissitudes in their business and social life, as Newbury

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Apprenticeship.— 1818-1825

Apprenticeship.— 1818-1825

Mastering the mechanical art, he soon writes anonymously for the Herald, and receives encouragement, especially from Caleb Cushing, who discovers his secret. His mother dies in Baltimore, where he makes a last visit to her. The boy had not been many days in the printing-office before he was convinced that he had at last found his right place; but his First feeling was One of discouragement as he watched the rapidity with which the compositors set and distributed the types. My little Speech at Di

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Editorial Experiments.— 1826-1828

Editorial Experiments.— 1826-1828

At the close of his apprenticeship, Garrison establishes in Newburyport the Free Press, and brings Whittier to light. XVII Although his own political sympathies and affiliations were with the Federalists and their successors, the Federal Republicans, it was Mr. Allen's effort so to conduct the Herald as to secure the good— will and patronage of all parties in the community, and the paper was classed as Independent, which signified in those days neutrality and a willingness to admit communication

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Bennington And The Journal Of The Times— 1828-29

Bennington And The Journal Of The Times— 1828-29

Garrison edits this new paper in Bennington, Vt., in advocacy of the reelection of President John Quincy Adams, but also begins in it his First warfare on slavery. Lundy visits him and engages him as associate editor of the Genius. Returning to Boston, Garrison delivers an anti-slavery Fourth of July address at Park-St. Church, with a perfunctory approval of Colonization: and then removes to Baltimore. The exciting Presidential campaign of 1828 had already begun, when Mr. Garrison received an in

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The Genius Of Universal Emancipation.— 1829-30

The Genius Of Universal Emancipation.— 1829-30

Garrison advocates, on his own responsibility and under his own signature, the doctrine of immediate emancipation, and causes a ruinous decline in the patronage of the Genius. for denouncing the transfer of slaves between Baltimore and New Orleans, in a ship belonging to Francis Todd, of Newburyport, he is indicted for libel by the Grand Jury, American slavery, according to John Wesley, was Matlack's Anti-Slavery Struggle, p. 42. The vilest that ever saw the sun.In an eloquent passage of his Par

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Baltimore Jail, And After.— 1830

Baltimore Jail, And After.— 1830

Ransomed by Arthur Tappan, Garrison abandons Baltimore, and journeys to Boston, lecturing on abolition by the way. He issues a prospectus for an anti-slavery journal to be published in Washington, but perceives that the North First needs conversion. A lecture in Julien Hall secures him the necessary friends, and he forms a partnership with Isaac Knapp to publish the Liberator in Boston. No man ever went to prison with a lighter heart or cleaner conscience than Garrison; and his slumbers, the Fir

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The Liberator— 1831

The Liberator— 1831

The doctrine of immediate emancipation, as urged in this paper, excites the fears of the South, especially after the Nat Turner insurrection in Virginia, and leads to public and private menaces against the life of its editor, and to penal enactments against taking the Liberator. appeals for its suppression are made to the city authorities of Boston; the extradition of Garrison is attempted by means of Southern indictments; and finally the Legislature of Georgia offers for his apprehension. Punct

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Organization: New-England Anti-Slavery Society.— Thoughts On Colonization.— 1832

Organization: New-England Anti-Slavery Society.— Thoughts On Colonization.— 1832

With difficulty an association is formed in Boston on the basis of Garrison's doctrine. After a lecturing tour in New England, he makes a destructive attack on the American Colonization Society in a pamphlet called “Thoughts on African Colonization.” The First step towards the formation of an antislavery society in accordance with the doctrines advocated by the Liberator was taken in Boston on Sunday, November 13, 1831, when Fifteen persons assembled in Mr. Sewall's office on State Street, on th

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Prudence Crandall.— 1833

Prudence Crandall.— 1833

Garrison advises this lady as to opening a School for colored girls in Canterbury, Conn., and his comments on her consequent persecution expose him to fresh libel suits. He is sent by the New England A. S. Society on a mission to England, to collect funds for a Manual Labor School for colored youth, and to head off a Colonization agent, Elliott Cresson. On passing through Connecticut he is pursued by the sheriff with writs, and in New York is also in danger of kidnapping by Southern emissaries.

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First Mission To England.— 1833

First Mission To England.— 1833

He arrives on the eve of the passage of the bill abolishing slavery in the British West Indies, is cordially received by the abolition leaders, and has interesting and affecting interviews with Buxton, Wilberforce, and Clarkson. He exposes Elliott Cresson and the Colonization scheme in Exeter Hall and elsewhere, and secures a protest against the latter headed by Wilberforce, who shortly dies and is buried in Westminster Abbey. Garrison attends his funeral, and then sails for America in August. T

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American Anti-Slavery Society.— 1833

American Anti-Slavery Society.— 1833

Garrison finds a mob prepared for him on landing in New York, and a would-be mob in Boston. Visiting Canterbury, he is served with the delayed libel writs, but is never brought to trial. In December he effects the organization at Philadelphia of a National Anti-Slavery Society, of which he draws up the Declaration of sentiments. Time would vindicate the essentially patriotic service which Mr. Garrison had rendered by cementing the alliance between British philanthropy and American abolitionism;

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Marriage.— Shall The Liberator Die?— George Thompson.— 1834

Marriage.— Shall The Liberator Die?— George Thompson.— 1834

Garrison marries Helen Eliza Benson, of Brooklyn, Conn., after the Liberator has been barely saved from going under. In the same month, September, George Thompson arrives from England, come at Garrison's request to aid the anti-slavery agitation in this country. Foreign interference is resented, and he is mobbed in sundry parts of New England. Freedom's Cottage, Roxbury, is the superscription of a letter addressed on September 12, 1834, by Mr. Garrison to George W. Benson, of Providence, and whi

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The Boston Mob (First Stage).— 1835

The Boston Mob (First Stage).— 1835

An Americas Union is formed by orthodox clergymen in the vain hope to draw off anti-slavery support from Garrison. Meetings of Southerners in New York and Richmond, denouncing the abolitionists; anti-negro riots in Philadelphia, and supposed slave-insurrections in Mississippi; and finally the rifling of the mails and burning of anti-slavery periodicals at Charleston, with the sanction of the Postmaster-General, cause unparalleled excitement throughout the country. The Mayor of Boston presides at

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The Boston Mob (Second Stage).— 1835

The Boston Mob (Second Stage).— 1835

A highly “Respectable” mob, excited against George Thompson, vents itself on Garrison at a meeting of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society on October 21. Mayor Lyman rescues him, and shelters him in the City Hall, whence he is formally committed to jail as a rioter, narrowly escaping the clutches of the mob on the way. The next day he leaves the City. Thompson returns to England. Garrison's partnership with Knapp ends. It was now time for Mr. Garrison to descend into that seething Mari magno w

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Germs Of Contention Among Brethren.— 1836

Germs Of Contention Among Brethren.— 1836

Ill health cripples Garrison's activity during this year, which he spends mostly at Brooklyn, Conn. He joins the Massachusetts remonstrants against legislative suppression of the abolitionists, at the State House, and attends the conference of the Seventy Agents in New York City, where he meets the Grimke sisters, of South Carolina. In criticizing Lyman Beecher's discourse on the Sabbath, he reveals his own views regarding the sanctity of that day, and alarms many of his orthodox associates. It

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The Clerical Appeal.— 1837

The Clerical Appeal.— 1837

The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society ensures the financial support of the Liberator, without touching the editor's independence. An orthodox Pastoral letter against the lecturing of the Grimkes, as women, in Massachusetts, is followed by a disingenuous Clerical Appeal against the conduct of the Liberator as respects the clergy. This is redoubled on the manifestation of Perfectionist doctrines by Garrison, under the influence of J. H. Noyes. The New York A. S. Managers rebuke him privately, and

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Pennsylvania Hall.— The Non-Resistance Society.— 1838

Pennsylvania Hall.— The Non-Resistance Society.— 1838

Garrison will no longer accept the aid of the Massachusetts Society, and give color to the charge that the Liberator is its organ. But this does not pacify the enemies of the paper. He takes part in the proceedings at the dedication of Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, and is obliged to flee the city when the building is burnt by a mob. At the New England Convention in Boston, his views as to the equality of the sexes in abolition membership prevail, leading to a clerical protest and secession. H

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Shall The Liberator Lead— 1839

Shall The Liberator Lead— 1839

A clerical plot to subvert the management of the Massachusetts Society, discredit the Liberator, and establish an organ in place of it under clerical control, is unmasked by Garrison and defeated at all points. A secession takes place, and the Massachusetts Abolition Society is founded, with the Abolitionist for its organ. The New Organizationists have the support of the Executive Committee of the American A. S. Society, who have been alienated from Garrison by his views on the Sabbath and on wo

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The Schism.— 1840

The Schism.— 1840

The nomination of Birney and Earle is finally effected in a pseudo-national A. S. Convention at Albany. The New York State A. S. Society becomes disorganized, and the Executive Committee of the American Society call in its agents, dispose of its organ, and shut up the office in New York City. At the annual meeting in May, Garrison and his New England supporters outnumber the partisans of the Executive Committee, and recover control of the Parent Society. A secession ensues, upon the issue of equ

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The World's Convention.— 1840

The World's Convention.— 1840

Garrison's passage is over-long, and on arriving he finds that the Convention, under sectarian influences, has excluded all female delegates from America. He thereupon refuses to enter it, and sits as a spectator in the gallery. He receives much social attention, and, in company with N. P. Rogers, makes a tour in Scotland and Ireland, returning to America in August. In the meantime the New Organizationists have been blackening his character at home and abroad. Neither in Liverpool nor yet in Lon

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The Chardon-Street Convention.— 1840

The Chardon-Street Convention.— 1840

This October convention is called by friends of Universal Reform to examine the foundations of the prevailing view of the Sabbath, ministry, and Church as divine appointments. Garrison does not sign the call, but takes part in the proceedings, as do many clergymen. The discussion is confined to the Sabbath, and he argues that the institution was done away by the coming of Christ. For this he is taxed by the New organization clergy with heading an infidel convention; and the financial mission of

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Re-Formation And Reanimation.— 1841

Re-Formation And Reanimation.— 1841

Actively accused of infidelity, on both sides of the Atlantic, Garrison restates his religious belief, but attends the closing sessions of the Chardon-Street Convention. He labors diligently in the field to revive the anti-slavery organization with Frederick Douglass at Nantucket, with N. P. Rogers in New Hampshire. He begins to entertain disunion views. Alienation and hostility of Isaac Knapp. If a man's reputation were his life, the scene of this biography would now properly shift once more to

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The Irish Address.— 1842

The Irish Address.— 1842

A monster anti-slavery Address to Irish-Americans, headed by O'Connell, leader of the repeal agitation in Ireland, tests the pro-slavery spirit of Irish Catholicism in the United States. Garrison comes out openly for the repeal of the Union of North and South, runs up this banner in the Liberator, and launches the debate in the anti-slavery societies. He makes a lecturing tour in Western New York, and falls desperately ill on his return home. Death of his Brother James. Remond, landing in Boston

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The Covenant With Death.— 1843

The Covenant With Death.— 1843

After a summer at the water-cure, Garrison makes his home in Boston, and renews with vigor the disunion campaign. He is followed by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in pronouncing the Constitution “A covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”he is made President of the American Society, of which the direction passes over to Boston. Zzzr. Garrison returned to his editorial duties in the latter part of January, 1843, but his health was far from restored. He struggled on till June, when

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No Union With Slaveholders!— 1844

No Union With Slaveholders!— 1844

The American Anti-slavery Society and the New England Convention formally adopt Garrison's disunion doctrine, not without individual protests and withdrawals. Breach with N. P. Rogers. “Garrison's favorite hobby of the Dissolution of the Union,” Ms. Jan. 30, 1844, to R. D. Webb. as Quincy dubbed the doctrine slowly evolving in the abolition mind, was discussed in Faneuil Hall and at the State House at the Twelfth annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Quincy himself reported,

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Texas.— 1845

Texas.— 1845

Garrison joins in the Massachusetts movement of the conscience Whigs against the annexation of Texas, but their disunionism oozes away after the event. Formal assent to the Disunion doctrine was given, with a will, by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at its annual meeting in January, 1845. As a consequence of this action, Ellis Gray Loring resigned his place on the Board of Officers. Poor Garrison, exulted the Boston Post, “Who appears to be broken down, mentally and physically, has taken

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Third Mission To England.— 1846

Third Mission To England.— 1846

In response to an invitation from the Glasgow Emancipation Society, Garrison revisits Great Britain to join in the antislavery crusade against the Free Church of Scotland, for its collusion with American slaveholders. He speaks, with Thompson and Douglass, incessantly throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland; attends the World's Temperance Convention; helps form an Anti-slavery League; and demolishes the pro-slavery Evangelical Alliance. He pays a last visit to Clarkson, who shortly dies. At th

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First Western Tour.— 1847

First Western Tour.— 1847

A too laborious lecture engagement with Frederick Douglass begins in midsummer in Pennsylvania, and ends, at Cleveland, Ohio, with Garrison's prostration with fever, at the im-minent peril of his life. Early in 1847, Mr. Garrison was solicited by the abolitionists of Ohio to visit their section of the country; and in the Liberator of March 19 he gave notice that he would spend the month of August in that State. This decision led to numerous invitations from friends in Central New York, as well a

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The Anti-Sabbath Convention.— 1848

The Anti-Sabbath Convention.— 1848

In view of active Sabbatarian propagandism, and of the constant efforts of the clergy to put obstacles in the way of Sunday abolition meetings, Garrison plans with H. C. Wright an Anti-Sabbath Convention in Boston, draws up the call, and directs the proceedings. He watches the rise of the Free Soil Party. Review of the Life of Channing. Garrison, as Wendell Phillips reported to Elizabeth Pease on February 11, 1848, Has quite recovered his flesh, looks quite hearty, and resumes work with ardor. H

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Father Mathew.— 1849

Father Mathew.— 1849

Father Mathew, having visited Boston on his temperance mission to the United States, is invited by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to renew his testimony against slavery (as a signer of the Irish Address of 1842) at a celebration of British West India Emancipation. Garrison drafts and presents the invitation, but is met with shuffling and refusal. He exposes this behavior in the Liberator, and makes Father Mathew's Southern tour both easy and difficult. Death of Charles Follen Garrison. G

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The Rynders Mob.— 1850

The Rynders Mob.— 1850

The New York Herald incites popular violence against the anniversary meeting of the American Anti-slavery Society in that city. Garrison presides, and speaks with the utmost composure in the midst of a mob led by a local bully, with the connivance of the city authorities. Second visit of George Thompson to America. We talk of the South and the North being parties to this question, and of the Slave Power being identified with the South. Do you remember how many slaveholders there are?This questio

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George Thompson, M. P.— 1851

George Thompson, M. P.— 1851

Thompson renews his old triumphs in the Eastern and Middle States, and takes a leading part in the celebration of the Twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Liberator, at which a gold watch is presented to Garrison. Thompson was the great central fact in Mr. Garrison's inner life and public activity during the Eight months of the Englishman's stay in America. They had been well-nigh inseparable but for exceptionally numerous indispositions which now and again, throughout the year 1851, dro

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Kossuth.— 1852

Kossuth.— 1852

The Hungarian refugee comes to the United States seeking national aid for his country. Fully informed in advance of the existence of slavery and the dominance of the Slave Power, he affects neutrality and flatters the South. Garrison, on behalf of the American Anti-slavery Society, exposes him in an elaborate letter. Uncle Tom's Cabin appears. Father Mathew's stay in America outlasted Two years. A Nine days wonder, he was heard and thought of no more after (like a candle lowered into a foul well

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The Bible Convention.— 1853

The Bible Convention.— 1853

Garrison revisits the West, and attends a large number of conventions; in particular, that at Hartford, Conn., to discuss the authority of the Scriptures, called by Andrew Jackson Davis, and mobbed by divinity students. His reputation among sectarians on both sides of the Atlantic suffers a still further decline. Friendly correspondence as to his heresy with Harriet Beecher Stowe. From among a dozen conventions which make the year 1853 memorable in Mr. Garrison's career, we choose for a caption

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The Nebraska Bill.— 1854

The Nebraska Bill.— 1854

The abrogation of the Missouri Compromise produces a powerful reaction at the North, by which the abolitionists profit in respect of greater freedom of speech. Garrison emphasizes his doctrine of disunion by publicly burning the Constitution on the Fourth of July. The Civil War began in 1854 with the passage of the Nebraska Bill. By this measure a tract embracing upwards of 400,000 square miles, bounded on the north by the British dominions, and on the south by the Indian Territory, and lying be

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The Personal Liberty Law.— 1855

The Personal Liberty Law.— 1855

Massachusetts, at the instigation of the abolitionists, makes its Personal Liberty Law more stringent in obstruction of the Fugitive Slave Law. Celebration of the Twentieth anniversary of the mobbing of Garrison in Boston by “Men of property and standing.” By midsummer of 1855, out of Eleven United States Senators elected by the legislatures of Eight Northern States since the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, not One was tolerant of that measure. New Hampshire itself, the stronghold of the Pi

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Fremont.— 1856

Fremont.— 1856

The pro-slavery atrocities in Kansas do not cause Garrison to regard the border-ruffian otherwise than as a fellow-man, or to view the newly formed Republican Party as an abolition organization. But, as between Fr6mont and Buchanan or Fillmore, he wishes success to the Republican candidate for President. The election of N. P. Banks to the Speakership of the lower house of Congress, after a Two months struggle, over a South Carolinian slaveholder, was, in Mr. Garrison's hope, “The First gun at Le

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The Disunion Convention.— 1857

The Disunion Convention.— 1857

The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society celebrates its Twenty-fifth anniversary. Garrison takes part in a disunion Convention held at Worcester under the auspices of T. W. Higginson and other residents of that city. Another and more representative Convention at Cleveland is projected, but is abandoned in view of the financial panic. The Dred Scott decision of the U. S. Supreme Court intervenes. The opening number of the Twenty-seventh volume of the Liberator contained Two notices, significant in

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The Irrepressible Conflict.— 1858

The Irrepressible Conflict.— 1858

Both Seward and Lincoln overtake Garrison's declaration (as far back as 1840) of the irreconcilability of freedom and slavery. Conviction seizes upon many abolitionists that the conflict will end only in blood. Garrison deprecates the idea, and washes his hands of all responsibility for such a ter-mination. No attempt was made in 1858 to renew the Disunion Convention of the previous year. The financial prostration continued, and, furnishing a pretext to the clergy to blow up a spurious revival o

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John Brown.— 1859

John Brown.— 1859

Garrison notes the Republican party's falling off in principle in view of its approaching electoral triumph; yet judges it fairly in accordance with its own standards. He justifies John Brown's Virginia raid by the Bunker Hill code, and, as a non-resistant, disarms him only while disarming the slave-holder. The crest of time now reached by the abolition movement, after the lapse of a full generation, was the Pisgah outlook over the Promised Land of universal emancipation. Destined himself to des

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Abraham Lincoln.— 1860

Abraham Lincoln.— 1860

Seward retracts his “Irrepressible conflict” for the sake of the Presidency, and falls under the censure of Garrison, as does the Republican Party for its platform. The Democratic Party breaks in Two at Charleston, and Lincoln is elected President. Garrison hails the secession of South Carolina as the end of the old Union and of slavery. The lamentable tragedy at Harper's Ferry is clearly traceable to the Unjustifiable attempt to force slavery into Kansas by a repeal of the Missouri Compromise.S

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No Union With Non-Slaveholders!— 1861

No Union With Non-Slaveholders!— 1861

The final resolve of the South to have no Union with nonslaveholding States creates a Union-saving panic in the North, and secures Republican assent in Congress to the most abject conditions of a restoration of the Status quo by Constitutional amendment, with explicit guarantees for the perpetuity of slavery. Concurrently, mob violence against the abolitionists breaks out afresh, with Wendell Phillips for its chief object in Boston. Garrison employs his pen actively against the compromising cowa

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The Hour And The Man.— 1862

The Hour And The Man.— 1862

Garrison defines in a public lecture the relations of the abolitionists to the war; and takes at the Anti-slavery meetings a cheering view of the situation in spite of the halting policy of the Administration, for which he makes due allowances. He draws up an emancipatory appeal to President Lincoln on behalf of the Progressive friends of Pennsylvania. He discusses the duty of abolitionists and non-resistants in face of the draft for troops. He welcomes, but with misgivings, Lincoln's preliminar

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The Proclamation.— 1863

The Proclamation.— 1863

Garrison is applauded as part of the occasion at the celebration, on January 1, in Boston, of the issue of the President's irrevocable edict of emancipation. He urges as the next duty the immediate abolition of slavery in the Border States, to which Lincoln lends no encouragement. He makes known through the Liberator the invaluable endeavors of George Thompson and his fellow-garrisonian abolitionists in Great Britain to fix popular sentiment on the side of the North, and welcomes an approaching

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The Reelection Of Lincoln.— 1864

The Reelection Of Lincoln.— 1864

Thompson lands in February, and is made the object of marked public attention, lecturing in the National Capitol before the President and the leaders of Congress. A division arises in the abolition ranks over the reelection of Lincoln, Wendell Phillips opposing it with much vehemence, and Garrison favoring it with equal earnestness, as does Thompson also. Garrison attends as a spectator the National Convention of the Republican party at Philadelphia, which unani-mously renominates Lincoln, while

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The Jubilee.— 1865

The Jubilee.— 1865

Missouri follows the example of Maryland, and Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery forever. Garrison opens the jubilee meeting held in Boston, and proclaims the Declaration of Independence Constitutionalized; is pressingly summoned to Newburyport for a like occasion, and warmly greeted; and gives notice of his intention to discontinue the Liberator at the end of the year. He is invited, together with George Thompson, by Secretary Stanton, to attend the

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End Of The Liberator.— 1865

End Of The Liberator.— 1865

The division among the abolitionists as to their proper attitude towards the Administration, and as to the continuance of the Anti-slavery organization and propaganda, culminates in an utter disagreement between Garrison and Phillips and their respective supporters. The American Anti-slavery Society follows Phillips, and Garrison withdraws from it. A lecturing tour to the Mississippi enables him to sustain the Liberator till the close of the Thirty-fifth volume, when he pens his valedictory, and

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The National Testimonial.— 1866

The National Testimonial.— 1866

Without an occupation or accumulated savings, advanced in years, and with health impaired, Garrison contemplates a History of the Anti-slavery movement, but fails to begin it. His friends address themselves to raising a National Testimonial, which receives the most distinguished support, and in the end ensures him a competence. No act of Mr. Garrison's could have afforded more convincing proof of his unselfishness than his voluntary discontinuance of the Liberator, and his joyful recognition of

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To England And The Continent.— 1867

To England And The Continent.— 1867

In May, Garrison accompanies George Thompson to England. He visits the continent for the First time and makes the acquaintance of the French Liberals, and in August participates (as a delegate of the American Freedman's Union Commission) in the International Anti-slavery Conference at Paris. In June he is honored with a public breakfast in London, presided over by John Bright, to which an International significance is given by Earl Russell's confession of his injustice towards the North during t

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Journalist At Large.— 1868-1876

Journalist At Large.— 1868-1876

Through Oliver Johnson, Garrison becomes a regular contributor to the New York Independent, and writes much for that and for many other papers, chiefly upon the following topics: the Freedmen (P. 237), Temperance (P. 239), the rights of women (P. 242), National politics (P. 258), free Trade and civil-service Reform (P. 262). he also makes many contributions to the history of the anti-slavery cause, and is entreated to undertake his autobiography, but in vain. He celebrates rather his deceased co

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Death Of Mrs. Garrison.— Final Visit To England.— 1876, 1877

Death Of Mrs. Garrison.— Final Visit To England.— 1876, 1877

The death of his wife and his own growing infirmities induce Garrison to seek diversion and strength by revisiting England in June, 1877. his social experiences prove surpassingly delightful, with new acquaintance and old; and he is able in public and private to give efficient aid to several reforms, particularly to the movement for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. He bids a last adieu to Thomp-son, whose end approaches. In January, 1876, the heaviest bereavement of his life befell Mr

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Last Years.— 1877-79

Last Years.— 1877-79

Garrison's bodily failing is accompanied by no falling off in mental power or diminution of interest in public affairs. He condemns Senator Blaine's support of the faithless bill to restrict Chinese immigration, and arouses public sympathy for the destitute 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

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Inner Traits

Inner Traits

Love of sports (P. 309), handwriting (P. 309), epistolary style (P. 310), dexterity (P. 311), preference of city to country (P. 311), fondness for cats (P. 312), aesthetic sense (P. 312), musical passion (P. 313), reading (P. 314), poesy (P. 315), oratory (P. 316), personal appearance (P. 319), constitution and ailments (P. 322), medical experimentation (P. 323), service and courtesy (P. 324), considerateness in the printing-office (P. 325), domestic helpfulness and happiness (P. 326), cheerfuln

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Corrigenda And Addenda Volume I.

Corrigenda And Addenda Volume I.

Postscript, following p. XIV. In the last sentence of the Second paragraph, too much borrowing is implied. For Passage read Sentence, and Dele Etc. Page 3, line 13 from bottom. Old Town was part of Newbury, Mass. Page 4, line 13. Dele both commas. Page 12, note 3. The record reads, conformably to our guess, And here with her Child. Page 14, line 5. Read, Kinsale, County Cork, Munster. Page 78, line 12, and Page 98, line 10. For Malcolm read Malcom. Page 87, line 17. For Handwich read Hardwick. P

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