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- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER I The Father of the Man
- CHAPTER II The Man Hears a Voice: Samuel, Samuel!
- CHAPTER III The Man Begins his Ministry
- CHAPTER IV The Hour and the Man
- CHAPTER V The Day of Small Things
- CHAPTER VI The Heavy World is Moved
- CHAPTER VII Master Strokes
- CHAPTER VIII Colorphobia
- CHAPTER IX Agitation and Repression
- CHAPTER X Between the Acts
- CHAPTER XI Mischief Let Loose
- CHAPTER XII Flotsam and Jetsam
- CHAPTER XIII The Barometer Continues to Fall
- CHAPTER XIV Brotherly Love Fails, and Ideas Abound
- CHAPTER XV Random Shots
- CHAPTER XVI The Pioneer Makes a New and Startling Departure
- CHAPTER XVII As in a Looking Glass
- CHAPTER XVIII The Turning of a Long Lane
- CHAPTER XIX Face to Face
- CHAPTER XX The Death-Grapple
- CHAPTER XXI The Last
- Index
CHAPTER V - The Day of Small Things
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER I The Father of the Man
- CHAPTER II The Man Hears a Voice: Samuel, Samuel!
- CHAPTER III The Man Begins his Ministry
- CHAPTER IV The Hour and the Man
- CHAPTER V The Day of Small Things
- CHAPTER VI The Heavy World is Moved
- CHAPTER VII Master Strokes
- CHAPTER VIII Colorphobia
- CHAPTER IX Agitation and Repression
- CHAPTER X Between the Acts
- CHAPTER XI Mischief Let Loose
- CHAPTER XII Flotsam and Jetsam
- CHAPTER XIII The Barometer Continues to Fall
- CHAPTER XIV Brotherly Love Fails, and Ideas Abound
- CHAPTER XV Random Shots
- CHAPTER XVI The Pioneer Makes a New and Startling Departure
- CHAPTER XVII As in a Looking Glass
- CHAPTER XVIII The Turning of a Long Lane
- CHAPTER XIX Face to Face
- CHAPTER XX The Death-Grapple
- CHAPTER XXI The Last
- Index
Summary
After leaving Baltimore, Garrison clung pathetically to the belief that, if he told what he had seen of the barbarism of slavery to the North, he would be certain to enlist the sympathy and aid of its leaders, political and ecclesiastical, in the cause of emancipation. The sequel to his efforts in this regard proved that he was never more mistaken in his life. He addressed letters to men like Webster, Jeremiah Mason, Lyman Beecher, and Dr. Channing, “holding up to their view the tremendous iniquity of the land, and begging them, ere it should be too late, to interpose their great power in the Church and State, to save our country from the terrible calamities which the sin of slavery was bringing upon us.” But there is no evidence that this appeal produced the feeblest ripple in the lives of the two first; and upon the two last it was equally barren of result. Dr. Channing, indeed, did not take the trouble to hear any one of the three lectures of the young philanthropist. Dr. Beecher, however, was at the pains to be present at the first lecture given at Julien Hall. But he betrayed no real interest in the subject. He had no time to devote to anti-slvavery, had, in fine, too many irons in the fire already.
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- William Lloyd GarrisonThe Abolitionist, pp. 110 - 117Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010