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Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 4: Constitution and conscience (search)
institution. Webster was the high priest of this fetish-worship, and his miserable capitulation to the slave power was in part due to this false patriotism, and in part to his presidential aspirations. But he humiliated himself in vain. Even Lincoln, who knew that if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong, felt justified as late as August, 1862, in saying, If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if rs held them at bay, the further continuance of the convention was rendered impossible. Thus closed anti-slavery free discussion in New York for 1850, said the Tribune. Similar events occurred in Boston, and the crowd silenced Phillips himself in Faneuil Hall. Even after Lincoln's election, anti-slavery meetings were broken up by rioters in Boston, and on one occasion Phillips' life was for a time in danger. In Brooklyn Henry Ward Beecher had to be guarded by the police in Plymouth Church.
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 5: the Civil war (search)
g the slaves in their respective military districts, still Garrison saw deeper than most of his fellow reformers, and almost from the first gave him his support. Lincoln's oath of office, indeed, obliged him to accept the Constitution, and to that extent he was not a free man or a free moral agent. Occupying this false position, surely the only course for an official who finds himself called upon to do something which offends his conscience. Garrison earnestly urged the renomination of Lincoln against the bitter opposition of Wendell Phillips, who always strangely misunderstood the President. Now at last the virtues of the Abolitionists began to be gOne of them addressed him in an eloquent oration on behalf of his race and two little slave girls presented him with flowers. This occurred on the very morrow of Lincoln's death, the news of which had not yet arrived. One of the party present at Fort Sumter and Charleston has informed the present writer that it was most impressi
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 6: the labor question (search)
had shown his devotion to the cause of the slave, and placed all Abolitionists under lasting obligations. In 1863 a friend writing to Garrison from England says: The working classes also have proved to be sound to the core, wherever their opinion has been tested. Witness the noble demonstration of Manchester operatives the other day, when three thousand of these noble sons of labor (many of whom were actual sufferers from the cotton famine) adopted by acclamation an address to President Lincoln sympathizing with his proclamation. A friend of mine who was present on the occasion tells me that the heartiness and enthusiasm of the workingmen was something glorious; that he heard them say to one another that they would rather remain unemployed for twenty years than get cotton from the South at the expense of the slave. Mr. Thompson has been in other parts of Lancashire, and the meetings he has addressed have been attended with the same results. Our experience in London has bee
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 7: Garrison the prophet (search)
pe. And above all he was a prophet in his absolute merger of himself in his cause. Outside of it he had no personal ambition; and there is something which compels admiration in this attitude. Garrison belonged to a higher class of men than Lincoln, for he forgot himself in his desire for the triumph of what he regarded as the right. Lincoln's great achievements were incidents in a political career of the ordinary kind, the object of which was the promotion of his own interests and the asLincoln's great achievements were incidents in a political career of the ordinary kind, the object of which was the promotion of his own interests and the assurance of his own advancement. As the world goes, we cannot criticize the ambitious lawyer, ready to argue any side of any case, nor the ambitious politician who wishes to be conspicuous; but such occupations and aspirations would be impossible to the noblest type of man. Garrison would at any moment have given his life and devoted his name to oblivion, if by so doing he could have helped his cause. And he was withal the most modest of men, even in conventions of his own people avoiding all
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 10: Garrison and the Civil war (search)
uch more religious and orthodox (as those words are ordinarily used) than the North. The leaders of the Northern hosts, Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and the rest, were not religious men, and their connection with churches of any kind was usualion of slavery did not affect the attitude of the North. It was only the South that was preoccupied with slavery. President Lincoln said, as we have seen, that the war was undertaken for the sole purpose of preserving the Union, and that he would ay be high treason to say so, but I think that the statesmanship of Gladstone-and of Garrison — was sounder than that of Lincoln. There is a class of critics which denies the importance of Garrison's services to the country on the ground that allly on the wheel, but steam in the engine. And we can call the best of all witnesses in confirmation of this fact. President Lincoln, a few days before his assassination, when congratulated by Mr. Chamberlain, afterwards governor of South Carolina,