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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
review of it appeared in the British Eclectic Review, the organ of the Nonconformists, for Feb., 1833, p. 138. The work was eagerly greeted by the English philanthropists who had already begun to unmask and to thwart the Colonization agent, Elliott Cresson. It furnished the basis of Charles Stuart's Prejudice Vincible (Liverpool: printed by Egerton Smith & Co., 1832), reprinted with other matter in a pamphlet published by Garrison & Knapp in 1833, called British Opinions of the American Colonand blasphemous sentiments as regards slavery than this individual. Citations follow. Clarkson, now almost blind, was reported to have listened with Lib. 2.23. enthusiastic delight to the details of the Society's operations as related by Elliott Cresson, its Quaker travelling agent in England. In April, a memorial purporting to come from its British membership, and supported and forwarded by the same Cresson, asking national aid for the Society, was presented in the House of Lib. 2.59;
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 10: Prudence Crandall.—1833. (search)
chool for colored youth, and to head off a Colonization agent, Elliott Cresson. On passing through Connecticut he is pursued by the sheriff Lib. 3.7. Cropper to Arnold Buffum in August, 1832. Meantime Elliott Cresson's activity among the wealthy and philanthropic denomination ofsentations to which the writer had been subjected. Transmitted by Cresson to the home organ, the endorsement was seen to be fatal to the Soc which compares as follows with the original: Clarkson to E. Cresson, December 1, 1831. This Society seems to me to Lib. 3.178. object so highly important. The fact is generally known that Elliott Cresson is now in England as an agent for the Colonization Society, anooperation of wealthy philanthropists. Another is to head off Elliott Cresson, who has been long in the country, and has succeeded in dupingng pretences, could truthfully say of itself through its emissary, Cresson, that it had the support of the wealth, the respectability and the
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 11: first mission to England.—1833. (search)
n, Wilberforce, and Clarkson. He exposes Elliott Cresson and the Colonization scheme in Exeter Hald him, saying that this was a grave charge; Mr. Cresson was present—would he admit or deny having mository, July, 1833; Lib. 3.127). And whereas Cresson never came near the abolition meetings in thepportunity for rejoinder would be furnished Mr. Cresson on the following evening after Mr. Garrison's lecture had been finished. Cresson thereupon declined to demean himself by entering into a disc he dictated them: 1. How far has Mr. Elliott Cresson made use of Mr. Wilberforce's name? Ha I fear they will prove ineffectual. Mr. Elliott Cresson continues to skulk from a public controis the usual advertising rate in that paper. Cresson's effrontery is truly surprising; for, notwit and of all the staunch anti-slavery spirits; Cresson's, of a few titled, wealthy, high-pretending nd the noble Duke himself, who, according to Cresson, Lib. 3.151. presided with dignity, but f[31 more...]
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 12: American Anti-slavery Society.—1833. (search)
tion, in the Boston Daily Advertiser and in Niles' Register, while he was still afloat, of Harrison Gray Otis's letter to a South Carolinian, already referred to. Cresson, too, Ante, p. 242. had written to the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser: I have Lib. 3.151. only time by this packet to tell thee that Garrison and the Anti-Slavbe, says Mr. May, a voucher for our harmlessness. Robert Recollections, p. 83. Vaux, a prominent and wealthy Quaker, seemed, apart from his relations with Elliott Cresson, to fulfil these Ante, p. 363. conditions, and a committee consisting of three Friends (Evan Lewis, John G. Whittier, and Effingham L. Capron, of Uxbridge,land Anti-Slavery Society; his conspicuous success in defeating abroad the humbug Society which still retained at home the odor of respectability and sanctity, Cresson's retreat to America began on Oct. 10, 1833 (Lib. 4.35). and in bearing back the Wilberforce protest against it; his bitter truths about his sinful country spoke
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
for, without his commanding eloquence, made irresistible by the blessedness of his cause, I do not think all the other agencies then at work would have procured their freedom (John Bright, London Farewell Soiree to George Thompson, 1864). Mr. Garrison's natural prepossessions for such a character were confirmed on meeting Mr. Thompson, who on his part received him with a warmth proportioned to his changed opinion of him. The first time the English abolitionist had heard of the American, Elliott Cresson was his informant. There is, said this unscrupulous person, an incendiary paper, published in Boston by a madman who is in league with a man of the name of Walker, who has recommended the slaves to cut their masters' throats. A little later, encountering Captain Stuart, who had just returned from the United States, Thompson Lib. 3.50. was presented with copies of the Liberator and the Thoughts on Colonization, the perusal of which more than prepared him to extend a brother's welco