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…
Category: <span>-William Lloyd Garrison’s Best Lines & Headlines</span>
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,…
“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…
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…
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.…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”.
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…
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…
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…
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…