... William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life, Volume 4Century Company, 1889 |
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Page v
... anti - slavery fidelity . The attack on Sumter breaks the spell that has bound the North , and Garrison lends his full weight to the wave of public feeling which resists the overthrow of the Union . He counsels a tem- porary self ...
... anti - slavery fidelity . The attack on Sumter breaks the spell that has bound the North , and Garrison lends his full weight to the wave of public feeling which resists the overthrow of the Union . He counsels a tem- porary self ...
Page vi
... anti - slavery meetings a cheering view of the situation in spite of the halting policy of the Administration , for which he makes due allowances . He draws up an emancipatory appeal to President Lincoln on behalf of the Progressive ...
... anti - slavery meetings a cheering view of the situation in spite of the halting policy of the Administration , for which he makes due allowances . He draws up an emancipatory appeal to President Lincoln on behalf of the Progressive ...
Page vii
... anti - slavery organization and propaganda , culminates in an utter disagreement between Garrison and Phillips and their respective supporters . The American Anti - Slavery Society follows Phillips , and Garrison withdraws from it . A ...
... anti - slavery organization and propaganda , culminates in an utter disagreement between Garrison and Phillips and their respective supporters . The American Anti - Slavery Society follows Phillips , and Garrison withdraws from it . A ...
Page viii
... Anti - Slavery Conference at Paris . In June he is honored with a public breakfast in London , presided over by John Bright , to which an inter- national significance is given by Earl Russell's confession of his injustice towards the ...
... Anti - Slavery Conference at Paris . In June he is honored with a public breakfast in London , presided over by John Bright , to which an inter- national significance is given by Earl Russell's confession of his injustice towards the ...
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... Anti- Slavery Society , which began its sessions at Tremont Temple on the morning of January 24 , and missed being an active participant in that memorable occasion . At his request the 94th Psalm was read at the opening of the meeting ...
... Anti- Slavery Society , which began its sessions at Tremont Temple on the morning of January 24 , and missed being an active participant in that memorable occasion . At his request the 94th Psalm was read at the opening of the meeting ...
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Page 61 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 106 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it.
Page 40 - But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age: Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Page 56 - I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually. Room in South America for colonization can be obtained cheaply and in abundance, and when numbers shall be large enough to be company and encouragement for one another, the freed people will not be so reluctant to go.
Page 201 - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of wealmess were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 168 - Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints; who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name ? for thou only art holy ; for all nations shall come and worship before thee ; for thy judgments are made manifest.
Page 54 - Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether boldest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place ; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Page 215 - Loud and long Lift the old exulting song; Sing with Miriam by the sea, He has cast the mighty down; Horse and rider sink and drown; "He hath triumphed gloriously!
Page 59 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page 18 - Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States"?