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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 4: editorial Experiments.—1826-1828. (search)
d reminiscences of the deceased statesmen, and copious extracts from the eulogies pronounced by Webster, Cushing, and Peleg Sprague; but the editor, while paying tribute to the abilities, virtues, any, at the Exchange 1827. Coffee House, to nominate a Representative to Congress to succeed Mr. Webster, who had just been promoted to the Senate, he attended it. The slate had already been arrang vindication of the great Federal leader, and that he should be chosen to the seat vacated by Mr. Webster. He accordingly wrote a carefully studied speech advocating his nomination, which he attemptodesty took the liberty to designate a candidate for member of Congress, to take the place of Mr. Webster. It is very true that the gentleman he named stands high in the estimation of the public, anw American System; and one correspondent even took him to task for publishing an extract from Mr. Webster's speech on internal improvements. The Philanthropist, like the Free Press, reported the Sta
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 6: the genius of Universal emancipation.—1829-30. (search)
ation, however remote and gradual, would have met with in such a body; and this was more than two years before the organized anti-slavery movement began. Less germane to the purpose of the Genius was the nullification debate between Hayne and Webster in the Senate; but Garrison could not resist printing those portions of Webster's famous reply which have become classic in American political and patriotic oratory. To the various moral and philanthropic questions in which he felt deep interesWebster's famous reply which have become classic in American political and patriotic oratory. To the various moral and philanthropic questions in which he felt deep interest,—temperance, peace, the treatment of the Indians, imprisonment for debt, and the discountenancing of lotteries,—he made frequent reference. He found two temperance addresses which had been sent him for notice too cold, too didactic, too speculative, to create a stirring sensation in the reader, or to rouse a slumbering community to a just apprehension of its danger, and he defined his own method of dealing with the subject: We, who are somewhat impetuous in our disposition, and G. U.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 7: Baltimore jail, and After.—1830. (search)
his message, must communicate to persons of prominent influence what he had learned of the sad condition of the enslaved, and the institutions and spirit of the slaveholders; trusting that all true and good men would discharge the obligation pressing upon them to espouse the cause of the poor, the oppressed, the down-trodden. He read to me letters he had addressed to Dr. Channing, Dr. Beecher, Dr. Edwards, W. E. Channing, Lyman Beecher, Justin Edwards. the Hon. Jeremiah Mason, and Hon. Daniel Webster, holding up to their view the tremendous iniquity of the land, and begging them, ere it should be too late, to interpose their great power in the Church and State to save our country from the terrible calamities which the sin of slavery was bringing upon us. These letters were eloquent, solemn, impressive. I wonder they did not produce a greater effect. It was because none to whom he appealed, in public or private, would espouse the cause, that Mr. Garrison found himself left and i
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
ur admission to equal rights imperative. Be your rallying cry— Union and our Country! By Union he, of course, meant harmonious action among the colored people themselves; not that Union, and less and less every day that Constitution, for which Webster went as they were I go for the Constitution as it is, and for the Union as it is (Second speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830).—slave representation and all—saying: It is the original bargain, the compact; let it stand. At the close of tis in the highest degree criminal for you to continue the present compact. Let the pillars thereof fall—let the superstructure crumble into dust— if it must be upheld by robbery and oppression. The domestic slavery of the Southern States, Mr. Webster had said in the speech already cited, I leave where I find it,—in the hands of their own governments. It is their affair, not mine. Quite otherwise Mr. Garrison, in the first number of the volume, reaffirming the guilt of slaveholders o
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 14: the Boston mob (first stage).—1835. (search)
5.130. meeting in the same Faneuil Hall that had been denied the abolitionists, and urged that Webster, Otis, Adams, Story, Sprague, Austin, Choate, and Everett should vindicate the fair fame of oure the temerity to answer that their construction of the Constitution is the same with that of Mr. Webster Webster, Choate and Everett were conspicuously absent from the Faneuil Hall meeting (Lib. Webster, Choate and Everett were conspicuously absent from the Faneuil Hall meeting (Lib. 5.142). and other jurists: that they aim at abolition only with the consent of the slaveholding States. Then, why don't they go South to present their appeals? To send them through the mails and ot); and as early as 1830, Henry Clay, to guard against the treachery of the post-office, advised Webster to address him under cover, and proposed to do the same in return (Webster's Private CorrespondWebster's Private Correspondence, 1.505). Neither the future Judge Sprague nor his brother lawyer, neither Mayor Otis declaiming nor Mayor Lyman presiding, and all paving the way for riot in the streets of Boston, bethought th