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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 4: pictures of the struggle (search)
ctorious British Abolitionists, should enlist Thompson in the American cause and bring him to Americ from every other head, and place it upon George Thompson's. He has done more than any other man to hated cause — a stranger and an Englishman. Thompson was mobbed and hounded, threatened, insulted,t myself with giving Mr. May's description of Thompson's eloquence. Mr. Thompson then went on toMr. Thompson then went on to give us a graphic, glowing account of the long and fierce conflict they had had in England for the siasts to thrill over American Anti-slavery. Thompson was marked for assassination and kidnapping; gibbet was erected for him in Boston. It was Thompson whom the mob were in search of when they caugy, soon to be described. The impertinence of Thompson consisted in his being a foreigner, and this emissaries. I am grateful to this man, George Thompson. He stood for courage in 1835 in Massachween England and America. I am glad that George Thompson lived to be thanked by Lincoln and his Ca[1 more...]
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 5: the crisis (search)
is house with shutters, bars and bolts. How imminent is the danger that hovers about the persons of our friends, George Thompson and Arthur Tappan! writes Garrison to George Benson. Rewards for the seizure of the latter are multiplying — in onom two to five thousand particularly respectable persons, was got together for the purpose of tarring and feathering George Thompson, who was believed to be at the meeting. As Thompson was not to be found, the mob cried out for Garrison. It surgedThompson was not to be found, the mob cried out for Garrison. It surged into the women's meeting where Garrison was. For some time the thirty women went forward with their prayers and proceedings while the mob howled upon them. Garrison left the meeting in order to protect it, but could not escape from the building on e Common, but for Mayor Lyman's timely interference? Very likely there was. There seems to have been a plan to maltreat Thompson, which plan was divulged to the public through broadsides and to Garrison through anonymous letters, one of the letters
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 9: Garrison and Emerson. (search)
hall quote shortly. The Abolitionists, of course, made a descent upon Emerson in their diocesan rounds — for they visited and proselytized everyone. May and Thompson, two of Garrison's lieutenants, called upon Emerson. Their mission was incomprehensible to Emerson, who writes in his journal: Our good friend, Samuel J. May, may instruct us in many things. He admired May but not Thompson, of whom he says: He belongs I fear to that great class of the Vanitystricken. An inordinate thirst for notice cannot be gratified until it has found in its gropings what is called a cause that men will bow to; tying himself fast to that, the small man is then at lib and, under that screen, if he gets a rotten egg or two, yet his name sounds through the world and he is praised and praised. Any one who has followed May and Thompson through good and evil report, who has felt the heat and depth of their devotion to truth, must almost wince at seeing what effect a visit from them produced upon
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 10: foreign influence: summary (search)
le in England as water is at one with water. They loved him; they doted on him, and he on them. As we have seen, George Thompson came to America in 1835, as an apostle to the Abolition Cause. Harriet Martineau came as a traveler in the same yeaeting of the Evangelical Alliance, which was a union of protestant clergy from various parts of the world. Garrison and Thompson took, of course, no share in the deliberations of these clergymen, but watched their proceedings with interest. The slaand reference to committees, etc., the Alliance decided for the admission of slaveholders. Imagine the state of mind of Thompson and Garrison! They instantly called a meeting at Exeter Hall under the auspices of their own newborn League: and they plasses upon this whole matter were John Stuart Mill, John Bright, Richard Cobden, Lord Houghton, William E. Forster, George Thompson, Goldwin Smith, Justin Mc-Carthy, Thomas Hughes, Herbert Spencer, Professor J. E. Cairnes--as well as the Gurneys, B
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
0. 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, 88dway 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, 7lition, 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 Has, 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, 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
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 2: the Boston mob (search)
y a gale, the Liberator was able to proceed on its way. But the most conspicuous pro-slavery demonstration was in the event directed against Garrison himself, and was the immediate result of the antagonism of the enemies of Abolition towards George Thompson, a distinguished English Abolitionist, who was lecturing in America, and whose interference with our domestic institutions was most offensive to them. It was announced that he would address a meeting of ladies on the afternoon of October 2Ioston. Placards were posted in public places urging good citizens to bring the infamous foreign scoundrel to the tar-kettle before dark. In response to this several thousand angry men gathered in the street at the time set for the meeting, but Thompson had been wisely kept away. The women showed the greatest coolness and courage and went quietly on with their proceedings, although the door of the hall and the stairways of the building were thronged by a threatening and unruly mob. The mayor a
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 5: the Civil war (search)
t an executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, not I, must be their instrument to enforce it. Resignation of office is 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 generally recognized. In 1864 George Thompson, who nearly thirty years before had barely escaped violence from proslavery mobs, returned to America. He was given a public reception in Boston, with Governor Andrews in the chair, and at Washington a short time afterwards, he was invited by the House of Representatives to deliver a lecture in their hall. Garrison, too, was treated with great respect when he visited the national capital, and in the last month of the war, at the invitation of Secretary Stanton, he was present at the r
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 6: the labor question (search)
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 been equally satisfactory. It would have done you good if you had . . . attended the great meeting of the working classes which we held on the 31st of December--the eve of freedom. Mr. Thompson himself corroborated this account in a letter written a month later: On New Year's Day I addressed a crowded assembly of unemployed operatives in the town of Heywood, near Manchester, and spoke to them for two hours about the slaveholders' Rebellion. They were united and vociferous in the expression of their willingness to suffer all the hardships consequent upon a want of cotton, if thereby the l
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 10: between the acts. (search)
-slavery movement in America, and he had replied, By giving us George Thompson. This unexpected answer of the American appeared without doubnational act of such importance and delicacy as the sending of George Thompson to America. He questioned whether the national self-love of tair hearing in consequence. But Garrison was confident that while Thompson's advent would stir up the pro-slavery bile of the North and all tsions for him in this regard. Well, after due deliberation, George Thompson consented to undertake the mission to America, and the Englishenough for Mr. Garrison to prefer such a request after hearing George Thompson speak. For he was one of those electric speakers, who do withican audiences as well. But in this he was somewhat mistaken, for Thompson had to deal with an element in American audiences of which he had , ergo, the importance of suppressing the incendiaries. Down with Thompson! Garrison must be destroyed! The Union--it must and shall be pr
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 11: Mischief let loose. (search)
. It was to destroy Garrison, make an end of Thompson, and suppress between its enormous jaws the g persons in Boston, who would assassinate George Thompson in broad daylight, and doubted whether Gaue. The orator is paying his respects to George Thompson, an avowed emissary, a professed agitatortheir notice, engaged a hall, and invited George Thompson to address them. Now the foreign emissarthe proposed meeting, the former promising to Thompson a lynching, while the latter endeavored to inmeeting. This time they made no mention of Mr. Thompson's addressing them, merely announcing severartunity for the friends of the Union to snake Thompson out! It will be a contest between the Abolitib from its five thousand throats were howling Thompson! Thompson! The mayor of the city, Theodore Thompson! The mayor of the city, Theodore Lyman, appeared upon the scene, and announced to the gentlemen of property and standing, who were thus exercising their vocal organs, that Mr. Thompson was not at the meeting, was not in the city. B[7 more...]
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