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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 1: introduction (search)
f our indebtedness, whether, for example, to Charlemagne or to the scholars who have revealed him. Yet everything we know and live by is due to the mind of someone in the past: its formulation, at any rate, was the act of a man. These same illuminations of history that we have been speaking of were due to the enlightenment of individual minds. Our Revolution of 1776 was made interesting by its state papers, and to-day our knowledge of that time is a knowledge of the minds of Washington, Franklin, and the other patriots. Now the light by which we to-day see the Anti-slavery period was first shed on it by one man-William Lloyd Garrison. That slavery was wrong, everyone knew in his heart. The point seen by Garrison was the practical point that the slavery issue was the only thing worth thinking about, and that all else must be postponed till slavery was abolished. He saw this by a God-given act of vision in 1829; and it was true. The history of the spread of this idea of Garrison
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 3: the figure (search)
he disgrace Of slavish knees that at thy footstool bow, I also kneel — but with far other vow Do hail thee and thy herd of hirelings base:-- I swear, while life-blood warms my throbbing veins, Still to oppose and thwart, with heart and hand, Thy brutalizing sway-till Afric's chains Are burst, and Freedom rules the rescued land,-- Trampling Oppression and his iron rod: Such is the vow I take-so help me God! Garrison's early history is the familiar tale of poverty, and reminds one of Benjamin Franklin's boyhood. His mother, a person of education and refinement, was, during Garrison's babyhood, plunged into bitter destitution. He was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1805. At the age of nine, in order to help pay for his board, he was working for Deacon Bartlett in Newburyport. Later, he learned shoemaking at Lynn, cabinet-making at Haverhill, and in 1818, at the age of thirteen, was apprenticed to a printer and newspaper publisher. Now began his true education. He read Sc
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
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 Hall, meeting of friends of South in, IoI, Io9 if.; meeting in, on Lovejoy murder, 129 if. Follen, Charles, death of, 28; Channing and proposed meeting in commemoration of, 29, 30; and the Lunt Committee, 124, 125. Forster, William E., 96, 251. Foster, Abby K., 210. Francis of Assisi, 86. Franklin, Benjamin, 41. free States, and slave states, admitted to Union in pairs, 9. Freedom, and Slavery, nature of contest between, 143. Fremont, John C., 175. Fry, Elizabeth, 246. Fugitive Slave Law, 15, 19I, 192, 235, 236, 237, 256. Furness, William H., at Rynders Mob meeting, 205, 208, 210 ff., 218. Garibaldi, Guiseppe, 193. Garrison, Frances I. See Garrison, William L., Jr., and others. Garrison, Wendell P. See Garrison, William L., Jr., and others. Garrison, William Lloyd,