In May, Garrison accompanies George Thompson to Eng- CHAPTER IX.-JOURNALIST AT LARGE (1868-1876)....236-266 Through Oliver Johnson, Garrison becomes a regular con- tributor to the New York Independent, and writes much for that and for many other papers, chiefly upon the following topics: The Freedmen (p. 237), Temperance (p. 239), The Rights of Women (p. 242), National Politics (p. 258), Free Trade and Civil-Service Reform (p. 262). He also CHAPTER X.-DEATH OF MRS. GARRISON.-FINAL VISIT TO ENGLAND (1876, 1877).. The death of his wife and his own growing infirmities induce pathy for the destitute colored refugees from Mississippi and Louisiana who flock to Kansas. In April, 1879, he visits his daughter in New York for medical treatment, and Love of sports (p. 309), handwriting (p. 309), epistolary style (p. 310), dexterity (p. 311), preference of city to country (p. 311), fondness for cats (p. 312), æsthetic sense (p. 312), musical passion (p. 313), reading (p. 314), poesy (p. 315), oratory (p. 316), personal appearance (p. 319), constitution and ailments (p. 322), medical experimentation (p. 323), service and courtesy (p. 324), considerateness in the printing-office (p. 325), domestic helpfulness and happi- ness (p. 326), cheerfulness in adversity (p. 327), burden of hospitality (p. 327), fondness for light (p. 329), editorial disorderliness (p. 329), accessibility and charity (p. 330), discipline and care of his children (p. 331), delight in infants (p. 332), vocal animation and humor in the home (p. 333), forward-looking and unhistoric mind (p. 334), close friend- ships and fidelity to friends (p. 334), initiative in the anti- slavery agitation (p. 335), judgment (p. 336), theological emancipation (p. 336), relations to the clergy (p. 337), views on spiritualism (p. 338), his indebtedness to his wife WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. “T CHAPTER I. "NO UNION WITH NON-SLAVEHOLDERS!"— 1861. me," wrote George Thompson to Mr. Garrison, on hearing of Lincoln's election, "it seems that the triumph just achieved has placed the cause in a new, a critical, and a trying position; demanding (if it be possible) additional vigilance, inflexible steadfastness to fundamental moral principles, and unrelaxed energy in the employment of anti-slavery means. You have now to grapple with the new doctrine of Republican conservatism, and will be called to contend with those in power who, having gained their object by the assistance derived from the abolition ranks, will use their power to repress, if not to punish, the spread of the true gospel of freedom. You have now to make genuine converts of those who have as yet only been baptized into the faith of non-extension, and whose zeal in that direction is mere white-man-ism. Forgetting the things that are behind, you have to reach forth to the things that are before, pressing towards the object you had in view when starting the utter extermination of slavery wheresoever it may exist." Νου. 23. 1860; Lib. 30: 198. The fears of this sagacious observer were quickly justified. While the abolitionists, without pause, renewed in Lib. 30:186. the fall their campaign of petitions for the perfecting (in a disunion sense) of the Massachusetts Personal Liberty VOL. IV.-1 CHAP. I. 1861. 189, 190. Law, leading Republican papers, like the Boston Journal and Transcript, and the Springfield Republican,- alarmed at once by the very success of the party in the national Lib. 30: 186, election, and by the rapid movement of the South towards secession,- earnestly advocated the repeal of the law. Lib. 30:205. They were reënforced by an address to the people of the State signed by the weightiest members of the legal profession, as Judge Lemuel Shaw, ex-Judge Benjamin R. Curtis, Joel Parker, Sidney Bartlett, Theophilus Parsons, and by equally shining lights in the world of scholarship and letters, as George Ticknor, Jared Sparks, and the Rev. James Walker, President of Harvard College, by George Peabody, the Rev. George Putnam, ex-Governors Henry J. Gardner and Emory Washburn, and some thirty others, representing all parties. These citizens were moved (in the immoral jargon of that day) by a "sense of responsibility to God for the preservation and transmission of the priceless blessings of civil liberty and public order which his providence has bestowed upon us." They would repeal the Personal Liberty Law from their "love of right," "their sense of the sacredness of compacts." To their aid came George Ashmun, who had presided over the Chicago Convention that nominated Lincoln, and, in the last act of his truckling official life, Gov. N. P. Banks. But his sucLib. 30: 178 cessor, John A. Andrew, triumphantly elected in spite of his having presided over a meeting in aid of John Brown's family, gave immediate notice in his message to the Legislature that reaction in deference to the Slave Power would find no supporter in him. Lib. 31:5. Νου. 19, 1859; Lib. 30: 141. Lib. 316. Foiled in this direction, the "respectable" classes fell to mobbing again, being made desperate by the quick adhesion of the Gulf States, during January, to South Carolina in rebellion. Their fury was directed afresh against Wendell Phillips, whose lineage made him a sort of renegade in their eyes, and whose invectives were unendurable when directed against themselves. Scenes similar Ante, 3:505. to those witnessed on December 16 attended his MusicHall discourse in Mr. Parker's pulpit, on "The Lesson of Lib. 31:14 |