Identifier: williamlloydgarr01garr (find matches)
Title: William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : the story of his life told by his children
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907 Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916
Subjects: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 Abolitionists Antislavery movements
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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of Garrison and his associates as publicnuisances, or, in default of this, provision at the publicexpense with a wholesome and salutary coat of tar andfeathers. Such was the Boston to which Mr. Garrisonwas about to bring his young bride, and to welcomeGeorge Thompson. My dear friend and brother, wrote the latter from theAnti-Slavery Office in New York, on Wednesday, September 24, iThe Rev. Orson S. Murray writes to Mr. Garrison (MS. Oct. 11, 1834)of Congregational clergymen in Vermont who would no longer take upcollections for the Colonization Society. 2 The people of Boston should know no difference between immediateabolition and colonization, if they are calculated to destroy the harmonywhich should subsist between the North and the South (Commercial Ga-zette, in Lib. 4:123. Of. ante, pp. 303, 304.) 3 MS. July 23, 1834, W. L. G. to S. J. May. This celebration on the 1stof August, which was continued throughout the anti-slavery struggle, wasfirst proposed by Mr. Garrison (Lib. 4:87).
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Mt. 29.) GEORGE THOMPSON. 451 1834, I arrived upon your shores on Saturday last, bringing Sept. 20.with me Mrs. Thompson, our dear children, and our servant.I was warmly greeted by the abolitionists of this city, but some-what curiously received by the other dwellers in this the commer-cial metropolis of the freest empire under the sun. The particularsyou shall have when we meet. They will bring another blushfor your country upon your cheek. ... I have beendelighted with all I have yet witnessed in this country, savethe conduct and dispositions of its rational and accountableinhabitants. I feel that I could love this land and its peoplewith all my heart, were bat oppression banished, and. thelanguage of all hearts this — The liberty we love we will bestow. The curious reception here referred to was nothingless than the turning Mr. Thompson and his family outof the Atlantic Hotel, to gratify an indignant Southernguest. Prudence dictated that the object of this bru-tality should not b

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