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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 3: Apprenticeship.—1818-1825. (search)
er, and discussed the political situation. The importance of united action on the part of the Federalists, now so largely in the minority, was emphasized, and their support of William H. Crawford for the Presidency in opposition to John Quincy Adams was strongly urged; yet while Aristides had much to say in depreciation of the latter, he evidently knew very little of the former, and simply supported him because he was the candidate of the Pickering faction. Quotations from Shakespeare and Junius prefixed to two or three of the letters indicate that the writer was already familiar with those masters of the language. Aside from his great sorrow in the loss of his mother and sister, the last three years of Lloyd's apprenticeship were very happy years to him. Trusted by his master with the entire supervision of the printing-office, and with the editorial charge of the Herald when he was himself absent; devoting his spare hours to reading and study; encouraged by the recognition of me
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)
money for the education of the Quaker lad, but the project was subsequently abandoned. The poet was now writing under the name of Adrian, and his productions appeared in the Haverhill Gazette, with the editor of which he boarded while attending the winter term of the Academy. Speaking of his verses and of the youth of the writer, Mr. Garrison said: There is nothing feeble or puerile, however, in his num- Nat. Phil., April 11, 1828. bers; he does not deal in ornament, or betray what Junius calls the melancholy madness of poetry ; but his verse combines purity of sentiment with finish of execution. Notwithstanding the numberless difficulties which surround his path, the ardor of his disposition remains undiminished; and considering the slender advantages he has enjoyed, his case is indeed remarkable and full of interest. In the second number of the Philanthropist edited by him Mr. Garrison commented on the passage, by the House of Assembly of South Carolina, of a bill to p
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 5: Bennington and the Journal of the Times—1828-29. (search)
s may be his supporters: to be in the minority against him would be better than to receive the commendations of a large and deluded majority. After the election returns had indicated the overwhelming success of the Democrats and the election of Jackson, Mr. Garrison reviewed the result and its probable consequences, in three dignified articles, under the title of The Politician; the key to his treatment of the Ibid., Nov. 28, Dec. 5 and 19, 1828. matter being given in the extract from Junius prefixed to them. I believe there is no man, however indifferent about the interests of this country, who will not readily confess that the situation to which we are now reduced, whether it has arisen from the violence of faction, or from an aberration of government, justifies the most melancholy apprehensions, and calls for the exertion of whatever wisdom or vigor is left among us. Some lines in blank verse, To the American People, signed A. O. B., expressed in more impassioned phrase th
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)
in this country at least, and dangerous to the freedom of public discussion—deserving, in a special manner, the animadversion of every watchful patriot:— An editor convicted of writing and publishing a false, wicked and malicious libel, without any authentic evidence of his guilt, and upon the most whimsical pretenses!!—I solicited no sympathy for myself: I only requested editors to look at the law and the facts, and to vindicate their prerogative. Let it be impressed upon your minds, says Junius, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all your civil, political and religious rights. . . . If I am prompted by vanity in pleading for the poor, degraded, miserable Africans, it is at least a harmless, and, I hope, will prove a useful vanity. Would to God it were epidemical! It is a vanity calculated to draw down the curses of the guilty, to elicit the sneers of the malevolent, to excite the suspicion of the cold-hearted, to offend th<