William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison

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Title: William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist
Author: Archibald H. Grimke
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[Illustration: Wm. Lloyd Garrison]

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

THE ABOLITIONIST BY ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE, M.A.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Grimk��, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930.
William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist.
Reprint of the 1891 ed. published by Funk & Wagnalls, New York.
1. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
Reprinted from the edition of 1891, New York First AMS edition published in 1974

_To Mrs. Anna M. Day, who has been a mother to my little girl, and a sister to me, this book is gratefully and affectionately dedicated, by_
The Author.

PREFACE.
The author of this volume desires by way of preface to say just two things:--firstly, that it is his earnest hope that this record of a hero may be an aid to brave and true living in the Republic, so that the problems knocking at its door for solution may find the heads, the hands, and the hearts equal to the performance of the duties imposed by them upon the men and women of this generation. William Lloyd Garrison was brave and true. Bravery and truth were the secret of his marvelous career and achievements. May his countrymen and countrywomen imitate his example and be brave and true, not alone in emergent moments, but in everyday things as well.
So much for the author's firstly, now for his secondly, which is to acknowledge his large indebtedness in the preparation of this book to that storehouse of anti-slavery material, the story of the life of William Lloyd Garrison by his children. Out of its garnered riches he has filled his sack.
HYDE PARK, MASS., May 10, 1891.

CONTENTS.

Dedication III
Preface V

CHAPTER I.
The Father of the Man 11

CHAPTER II.
The Man Hears a Voice: Samuel, Samuel! 38

CHAPTER III.
The Man Begins his Ministry 69

CHAPTER IV.
The Hour and the Man 92

CHAPTER V.
The Day of Small Things 110

CHAPTER VI.
The Heavy World is Moved 118

CHAPTER VII.
Master Strokes 133

CHAPTER VIII.
Colorphobia 157

CHAPTER IX.
Agitation and Repression 170

CHAPTER X.
Between the Acts 192

CHAPTER XI.
Mischief Let Loose 208

CHAPTER XII.
Flotsam and Jetsam 233

CHAPTER XIII.
The Barometer Continues to Fall 242

CHAPTER XIV.
Brotherly Love Fails, and Ideas Abound 263

CHAPTER XV.
Random Shots 292

CHAPTER XVI.
The Pioneer Makes a New and Startling Departure 306

CHAPTER XVII.
As in a Looking Glass 319

CHAPTER XVIII.
The Turning of a Long Lane 335

CHAPTER XIX.
Face to Face 356

CHAPTER XX.
The Death-Grapple 370

CHAPTER XXI.
The Last 385
Index 397

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

CHAPTER I.
THE FATHER OF THE MAN.
William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, December 10, 1805. Forty years before, Daniel Palmer, his great-grandfather, emigrated from Massachusetts and settled with three sons and a daughter on the St. John River, in Nova Scotia. The daughter's name was Mary, and it was she who was to be the future grandmother of our hero. One of the neighbors of Daniel Palmer was Joseph Garrison, who was probably an Englishman. He was certainly a bachelor. The Acadian solitude of five hundred acres and Mary Palmer's charms proved too much for the susceptible heart of Joseph Garrison. He wooed and won her, and on his thirtieth birthday she became his wife. The bride herself was but twenty-three, a woman of resources and of presence of mind, as she needed to be in that primitive settlement. Children and cares came apace to the young wife, and we may be sure confined her more and more closely to her house. But in the midst of a fast-increasing family and of multiplying cares a day's outing did occasionally come to the busy housewife, when she would go down the river to spend it at her father's farm. Once, ten years after her marriage, she had a narrow escape on one of those rare days. She had started in a boat with her youngest child, Abijah, and a lad who worked in her household. It was spring and the St. John was not yet clear of ice. Higher up the river the ice broke that morning and came floating down with the current. The boat in which Mary Garrison and her baby rode was overtaken by the fragments and wrecked. The mother with her child sought refuge on a piece of ice and was driven shoreward. Wrapping Abijah in all the clothes she could spare she threw him ashore. She and the lad followed by the aid of an overhanging willow bough. The baby was unharmed, for she had thrown him into a snow-bank. But the perils of the