The committee appointed to take into consideration the propriety of forming a Western N.Y. Anti-Slavery Society, submitted the following resolution: ……………………. A committee consisting of J.A. Collins, Lewis Burtiss, Cyrus…
Category: <span>-William Lloyd Garrison’s Best Lines & Headlines</span>
Woman’s Rights. – Major Tochman, the Polish exile, in a recent lecture, said, ‘during the war with Russia, even the Polish women engaged in raising forces, and taking command of…
GARRISON TO JOHN BROWN Writing to Brown on November 1, 1859, one month and one day before Brown’s execution, Garrison says: “My brave but unfortunate friend,… Protract to the utmost, your…
LAOS DEO! HALLELUJAH ! February 3, 1865, The Liberator “It is with devout thanksgiving to God, and emotions of joy which no language can express, that we announce to our…
When Millard Fillmore threw his support to the Fugitive Slave Law, an angry Garrison named him “as pliant a piece of dough as was ever handled”.
On the first day of 1851, marking the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Liberator, a crowd gathered to honor Garrison. He tried to turn aside the adulation with…
Early in their marriage, while separated from Helen by his work, he writes to her, comparing the separation to a leg amputation. “I have often thought that a man must…
As early as 1832 William Lloyd Garrison clearly named New Englanders as complicit with slavery. “In its origin, slavery was a common crime ; it is equally so in its…
When Webster was debating over the proposed Compromise of 1850, on the Senate floor he ridiculed the radical abolitionists, critical of their simplistic thought. They thought that morality did not…
All seven of the Garrison children were named for Abolitionists. The first, born in 1836, was named for the English abolitionist, George Thompson, whom Garrison met on his 1833 trip…
In 1833, the Liberator includes the early speeches of Maria Stewart, one of the first women of African ancestry to speak publicly on the political issues of slavery. The April…
In the August 10, 1833 issue of the Liberator, the editor announces the publication of Lydia Maria Child’s Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. Child, a…
In October, 1833, after Garrison returned from his trip to the UK, a handbill, BOSTONIANS AWAKE!, is circulated in Boston. It calls attention that Garrison has been in England on…
At a Garrison Memorial Meeting, in the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, Washington,D.C., on June 2, 1879, Douglass was one of the speakers. Robert Purvis, long-time friend of Garrison, led the…
In the October 8, 1836, Liberator, portions of Grimke’s Appeal to Chrisitan Women of the South, are printed. Garrison comments, “She mentions four things which women can do: You can…
The September 21, 1838 Liberator includes a summary of a study by L.N. Fowler,Phrenologist, who examined Garrison. Here a few of the findings from the study: “He has an active…
In the March 17, 1843 Liberator, Garrison comments on the fact that in state Convention, the Whigs of Virginia have declared their preference for Henry Clay for the Presidency. “This…
Even before his earliest public speeches, and two years before starting the Liberator, here is a taste of his determined confidence, and some would say, Garrison’s ego. In 1838, he…
“The abolition men in this city are somewhat drowsy, but the women are, as usual, wide awake, and the life of the cause. I must put some goads into the…
In August, 1837, responding to public criticism, Garrison refers to an abolitionist who has said he “never swallowed William Lloyd Garrison, and I never tried to swallow him.” Garrison…
Writing to Parker, May 26, 1858. “Dear Mr. Parker: I was so interrupted by company to a late hour last night, that I have found it impossible to look over…
Garrison is clear in his comments regarding the life of Jackson: “He has been an awful curse and scourge to the country, and his death, therefore, will be anything but…
Feb 18, 1848, Garrison complains that Webster, “who receives eight dollars a day, has scarecly given a vote in the Senate during the present session….. What to him are the…
“The transition from the Presidential chair to the grave has been swift and startling. Neither humanity, nor justice, nor liberty, has any cause to deplore the event. He probably died…
A copy of Whittier’s poems, published by Mussey & Co, 1850, has come to Garrison. “Whittier needs no man’s commendation; his reputation is established; his genius stands confessed on both…
While twenty-three years old, Garrison sought moral character in candidates for office. “I wish to see a full ballot-box of unbought, intelligent votes, on every, the most trivial election.…
Garrison saw the need for abolitionists to coalesce. “It is idle for them to sigh over the degradation and misery of the slaves, while they neglect to coalesce. To effect…
“Yesterday, (July 4,1836) the people of this vain and vaunting county perjured themselves afresh, in the presence of the world, by calling God to witness that they are a free…
There are nearly 2000 antislavery societies, in all parts of the free States. There are at least 14 anti-slavery periodicals, that either openly advocate the doctrine of immediate emancipation,…
The “Irish Address”, in 1841, featured O’Connell’s hope that Irish in America would become active in the abolition movement. Garrison reminds readers that the Irish “have come to this fair…
In February of 1851 Garrison, in the Liberator, urges readers to sign petitions asking that enrollment in the Schools of Theology, Medicine, Law, and Science, be open “to all persons,…
In July, 1852, the Liberator, includes announcement of Clay’s death. “He was a brilliant orator, and exceedingly attractive and magnetic in social life, but utterly devoid of principle, and one…
Early in Garrison’s abolition life, Samuel May, friend and mentor, expressed concern that Garrison needs to “soften his language” and style of speaking. Garrison says he will do so only…
After speaking at Julien Hall, October 15, Samuel May and Samuel Sewall, Boston lawyer, spent a long evening in discussion at the home of Bronson Alcott. According to biographer, Henry…
Saturday, January 1, 1831, the Liberator “I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be harsh as…
In January of 1851, an item in the Liberator, by Phillips, urges the circulation of petitions to the legislature asking for the “extension of the elective privilege to women”. It…
In 1861 in at least two different letters, Garrison is sure that Lincoln is pro-slavery: Lincoln “shapes his course of policy in accordance with pro-slavery views” … “He has evidently…
January 1, 1869 “The confidence of the nation in the integrity, good sense, modesty, soundness of judgment, clear discrimination, executive ability, and peaceable and just administration of General Grant is…
“Woman presents her claim for suffrage. Why should not her claim be granted? There are many reasons adduced, but they are all summed up in this one grave objection: because…
“With but two exceptions in our national history — Washington and Lincoln — the death of no public man has been so universally deplored, or has elicited such tokens of…
Garrison writing to La Roy Sunderland, September 8, 1831: “I do not justify the slaves in their rebellion; yet I do not condemn them, and applaud similar conduct in white…
After his first son, George Thompson Garrison, enlisted in the 55th Mass Regiment, Garrison writes to him: I have nothing but praise to give you that you have been…
Moses Brown was one of the famous family involved in the founding of Brown University, remembered for involvement in the slave trade. He was clearly the Abolitionist among the…
During his 1833 visit to England, Garrison met William Wilberforce, the great abolitionist leader in Parliament. He visited Wilberforce just briefly prior to his death, and then actually attended…
The Liberator of June 6, 1835, includes notices from the Boston Commercial Gazette, the New York Times, and the New York Courier & Enquirer, all commending the action of the Mayor…
An Epistle appears in the paper, with a warning for Garrison. It professes to be from a Bostonian, who calls Garrison a “damned rascal”, and warns that his paper is…
While George Thompson, English abolitionist, was on his 1835 visit to Boston, this handbill was posted about the city when it was thought that he would speak: THOMPSON…
In March, 1836, Garrison says he cannot attend a meeting of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, but he commends them with these words: “Henceforth when the American oppressor attempts to convince…
In March, 1836 comes this, from the Milledgeville, GA Federal Union $10,000 REWARD, For A.A. Phelps, A Noted Abolitionist
In early 1836, a Special Committee of the Legislature responds to documents which had been sent to the Governor from several southern state Legislatures, complaining about abolitionists, and maintaining the…