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Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 12: flotsam and jetsam. (search)
n the loss of his home, or that of the office of the Liberator, was the loss of his friend, George Thompson. It seemed to him when the English orator departed that the paragon of modern eloquence, a, had left these shores. Garrison's grief was as poignant as his humiliation was painful. George Thompson had come hither only as a friend of America, and America had pursued him with the most rele the first opportunity. On Sunday, November 8, the anxiously looked — for moment came when George Thompson was put upon a packet, in which he sailed for St. Johns, New Brunswick, whence he subsequenn approaching him out of the all-hail hereafter a greater in these identical respects than George Thompson, indisputably great as he was. It was a blessed refuge to Garrison, the Benson homesteadession passed by with band and music, bearing aloft a large board on which were represented George Thompson and a black woman with this significant allusion to the riot, made as if addressed to himse
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 13: the barometer continues to fall. (search)
he old town, was held December 8, 1837-a meeting memorable as an uprising, not of the Abolitionists, but of the conservatism and respectability of the city in behalf of the outraged liberties of white men. Ever memorable,too, for that marvelous speech of Wendell Phillips, which placed him instantly in the front rank of minds with a genius for eloquence, lifted him at once as an anti-slavery instrument and leader close beside William Lloyd Garrison. The wild-cat-like spirit which had hunted Thompson out of the coun-Iry and Lovejoy to death, had more than made good the immense deficit of services thus created through the introduction upon the national stage of the reform of this consummate and incomparable orator. The assassination of Lovejoy was an imposing object lesson to the North, but it was not the last. Other and terrible illustrations of the triumph of mobs followed it, notably the burning of Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia on the evening of May 17, 1838. As the murder of
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 15: Random Shots. (search)
his groupings of heads he decided to place together the Rev. John Scoble, George Thompson and Charles Lenox Remond. When Scoble sat to him, Haydon told him of his ce, as it would have much greater effect. The painter now applied his test to Thompson who saw no objection. Thompson did not bear the test to Haydon's satisfactionThompson did not bear the test to Haydon's satisfaction, who observed that A man who wishes to place the negro on a level must no longer regard him as having been a slave, and feel annoyed at sitting by his side. But wh him, Haydon records with obvious pleasure, and he met me at once directly. Thompson was not altogether satisfactory to Garrison either during this visit as the following extract from one of his letters to his wife evinces: Dear Thompson has not been strengthened to do battle for us, as I had confidently hoped he would be. He iing on in the United States. Garrison, Rogers, and Remond in the company of Thompson made a delightful trip into Scotland at this time. Everywhere the American Ab
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 18: the turning of a long lane. (search)
Democratic, as well as of those already mentioned. Uncle Tom's Cabin might fairly be classed among the large indirect results produced by Garrison. But as Phillips justly remarked, Uncle Tom would never have been written had not Garrison developed the facts; and never would have succeeded had he not created readers and purchasers. Garrisonism had become an influence, a power that made for liberty and against slavery in the United States. It had become such also in Great Britain. George Thompson, writing the pioneer of the marvelous sale of Uncle Tom in England, and of the unprecedented demand for anti-slavery literature, traced their source to his friend: Behold the fruit of your labors, he exclaimed, and rejoice. Mr. Garrison's pungent characterization of the Union at the dinner of the Free Democracy as but another name for the iron reign of the slavepower, found almost instant illustration of its truth in the startling demand of that power for the repeal of the Missouri
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 20: the death-grapple. (search)
ugh a radical peace man, how just was his attitude toward the men and the measures of the War for the Union. Nothing that he did evinced on his part greater tact or toleration than his admirable behavior iu this respect. To his eldest son, George Thompson, who was no adherent of the doctrine of non-resistance, and who was commissioned by Governor Andrew, a second lieutenant in the Fiftyfifth Massachusetts Regiment, the pioneer wrote expressing his regret that the young lieutenant had not beeninced in a signal and memorable manner a little later when the National Government extended to him an invitation to visit Fort Sumter as its guest on the occasion of the re-raising over it of the Stars and Stripes. He went, and so also went George Thompson, his lifelong friend and coadjutor, who was the recipient of a similar invitation from the Secretary of War. This visit of Mr. Garrison, taken in all its dramatic features, is more like a chapter of fiction, with its strange and improbabl
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 21: the last. (search)
Chapter 21: the last. Garrison, said George Thompson on the steamer which was conveying the Government party out of Charleston Harbor on their return trip; Garrison you began your warfare at the North in the face of rotten eggs and brickbats. Behold you end it at Charleston on a bed of roses! The period of persecution had indeed ended, the reign of missiles had ceased, but with the roses there came to the pioneer not a few thorns. Bitter was the sorrow which visited him in the winter of 1863. Without warning his wife was on the night of December 29th, stricken with paralysis, which crippled her for the rest of her life. No words can adequately express all that she had been to the reformer in his struggle with slavery. She was a providential woman raised up to be the wife and helpmate of her husband, the strenuous man of God. As a wife for a period of more than twenty-six years, he wrote her on the completion of her fiftieth year, you have left nothing undone to smooth the
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Index. (search)
, 344. Garrison, Abijah, 12-15, 18. Garrison, Charles Follen, 331-332. Garrison, Francis Jackson, 330. Garrison, George Thompson, 381. Garrison, Helen Eliza, 194-196, 219, 297, 331, 385-386. Garrison, James, 19, 20, 302-303. Garrison, Joseph,185-186; marriage, 193; the wife, 194-196; poverty of the Liberator, 197-200; the paper displeases friends, 201-204; George Thompson, 204-206; Faneuil Hall meeting to put the Abolitionists down, 211-215; gallows for two, 215-216; the Broad-Cloth Mob, 218-232; Thompson leaves the country, 238; appears before a committee of Massachusetts legislature, 245-246; Pennsylvania Hall, 257-260; Marlboro Chapel, 260-261; ill health, 263; Educational Convention of anti-slavery agents, 264-265; the Sabbathappan, Arthur, 83, 84, 164, 171, 184, 209, 210. Tappan, Lewis, 149. 177, 201, 209, 283, 285. Texas Agitation, 314-318. Thompson, George, 204-206, 210, 212, 213, 216, 217, 218, 238, 294, 295, 351, 383, 385. Thurston, David, 18o. Tilton, Theodore,
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 7: Greeley's part in the antislavery contest (search)
hanning was the only one of his classmates who would have allowed himself to be called an Abolitionist. When, in October, 1835, the Female Antislavery Society of Boston proposed to hold a public meeting, at which an address would be made by George Thompson, an eloquent assailant of slavery, handbills were circulated announcing that a purse of $100 had been raised by patriotic citizens to reward the individual who shall first lay violent hands on Thompson so that he may be brought to the tar-keThompson so that he may be brought to the tar-kettle before dark. Friends of the Union, be vigilant! and the meeting was broken up by a mob which the mayor confessed himself unable to control. A meeting of Abolitionists in Philadelphia, on July 4, 1834, was made the occasion of mob violence, in which Lewis Tappen's house was gutted, and other buildings, including churches, were damaged, and unoffending negroes were assaulted in the streets; these disorders continued for several days, and extended into New Jersey. The public animosity sh
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
on the way. The next day he leaves the City. Thompson returns to England. Garrison's partnership we Boston Centinel declared that Lib. 5.153. Thompson would never be allowed to address another meees only; and an address was promised from George Thompson. The Commercial Gazette of Monday affe we would preserve our consistency. Why does Thompson persist in driving [our citizens] to acts of ; Garrison Mob, pp. 15, 68. the deputy that Mr. Thompson was absent, and the Mayor took, therefore, mands of the rioters, by assuring them that Mr. Thompson was not in the city. By so doing he weakenn readiness. The plan was, to take you and Mr. Thompson to the Common, strip, tar-and-feather you, d is created by the return of G. T.! It is G. Thompson. like the loss of a general to an army, whooccurrence they would have permitted even George Thompson to address the ladies without interruptiotranscended my most sanguine expectations (Geo. Thompson at Glasgow, Jan. 25, 1836, Lib. 6.69. See[59 more...]
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 2: Germs of contention among brethren.—1836. (search)
of American slavery, upon the return of Mr. George Thompson from his mission to that country (Edinbnce manifested by the Dissenters among whom Mr. Thompson had labored, not only of the system of slavg this impediment to Christian intercourse, Mr. Thompson also squared his cis-Atlantic Lib. 6.133, hanning's censure of the abolitionists and of Thompson by saying: But we [the Garrison party] Lib. if they were some new moral discoveries. George Thompson wrote from Liverpool, January 14, 1836: T 4. the endorsement of Kaufman's libel on George Thompson. Mr. Garrison summed up his objections uo evidence of hostility to emancipation. George Thompson would never have been driven from this coaddressed to an infant A son named for George Thompson, who quickly returned the compliment in April, when Mrs. Thompson presented him with a son. The editor of the Norwich (Conn.) Aurora chronicdie Tompit, Parental nursery lingo for George Thompson. he seemed to be ready for any new advent[1 more...]
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