Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-01-08
From The Peoples Journal.
MEMOIR OF WILLIAM LLOYD
GARRISON.
by MARY HowITT.

Newburyport, Massachusetts, about thirty
miles from Boston, December 10, 1903. HIS
maternal grandparents were English Emit
grants, of the name of Lloyd, residents In
Lower Canada. His father was Ablah Gar
rison, the captain of a vessel which traded TO
the West Indies he was a man OF excellent
abilities a good navigator, and fine poet
All his noble qualities, however, natural and
acquired, were negatived by an unfortunate
passion for liquor, which ruined all his pros
poets in life, caused him TO abscond from his
family while his children were quite young,
leaving them in a state of utter Gestitution.-
The mother thus deserted, and left to strug-
ole with adversely, was one of Gods noblest
creatures. Her beauty Of person was rema!k-
able, and accordant with her character of
mind. She was of a tall, majestic figure, sin
gularly graceful in department and carriage;
her features were fine, and expressive of a
high Intellectual character; and her hair so
luXuriant and rich, that when she uSbound 1t,
like that of Godiva of old, it fell around her
like a veil. The outward being, however,
was bet a faint image of the angelic creature
within she was one of those who inspire at
once love and reverence; she took high views
of life and its duties and, consequently,
when adversely came upon her as an armed
man, she was not overcome. Life had lost
its sunshine, but not its worth and for her
own and her children's sake, she combated
nobly with poverty and sorrow. Her infu-
ence on her children, more especially on her
son William, was very great; he vcnerated
her while yet a child not a word or a pre-
cept Of hers was ever lost-his young heart
treasured up all-unknowing that these in
after life should become his great principles
of action. To illustrate the conscious and
firm character of this admirable woman, We
must he permitted to give an anccdote of her
whilst yet yodng. Her parents were of the
Episcopal Church, and among tie most b-
goted of that body. In those days the Bap-
lists were a despised people, and 1t was reck-
oned vulgar TO be of their community. One
day, however, it was made known through
out the neighborhood where she lived. that
one of these d~espised s~ectaries would preach
in a barn, and a party Of gay young people,
one of whom was the lovely and gay Fanny
Lloyd, agreed for a frolic to go and hear him.
OF those who went to scoil, one remained to
pray-this was Fanny Lloyd. Her soul was
deeply touched by the meek and holy spirit
of the preacher-she wept much during the
sermon, and when it was over, the preacher
spake kindly to her. From that day a change
cane over her mind she would no longer
despise and ridicule the Baptists and before
long, announced to her astonished and indig-
nant parents that she found it necessary for
the peace Of her soul, to become publicly one
of that d~espised body. Nothing could equal
the evaporation which followed this avowal.
They threatened that if she allowed herself
to be baptized, they would turn her out of
doors. 1t was not a matter of choice, but of
stern duty with her; she meekly eXpostulat-
ed-she besought them with tears TO hear her
reasons, but in vain. She could not, how
ever, resist that which she believed to be her
ddty to God she was baptized, and had no
longer a home under her parents roof. She
then took refuge with an uncle, with whom
she resided several years. This early perse-
cution only strengthed her religious opinions;
and she remained through life "A Jealous adj
vocate OF those peculiar views for which she
haG suffered so much.
At the time of her husbands desertion,
Mrs. Garrison was left with five children, two
of whom died soon afterwards. When hel
son William was about seven, she found i
necessary to remove from Newburyport t
Lynn. She was in very low circumstance
and having taken upon herself the profession
of a sick-nurse, was induced to remove Il
Lynn, in the hope of better success in he
calling. She took with her her eldest sol
James, a boy of extraordinary promise-wOn
derfully gifted like herself, and, like her, re
markable for his handsome person. Jane
was her favorite child, and she looked foT
ward to his being the stay and comfort of he
declining years. Her son William, and he
only remaining daughter, then quite young
she left at Newburyport, both of them undo
the care of good people of the Baptist persu;
sion. William was placed with one Of tn
most excellent of men, although he was poo
and had no better means of gaining a livel
hood than by setting the edges of saws, an
splitting wood for fuel. This good man Wa
a deacon in his church, and by name Ezeki,
Bartlett. The boy was in the place of SC
TO him; and both he and his wife, who ha
the Utmost yeneration for his mother, assun
ed at once the paternal character TOWARD
him. Now and then his own mother can
over to see him and his sister; and those vi
its were joyful holidays of the heart to a
parties. If the poor can afford fewer indu
gences than the rich, there is perhaps all II
greater Zest and intensity about that fe
which may make the balance somewhat eve
So was it in the case Of these good but pc,
people.
1t was fortunate for the children that
the houses of their protectors they receive
sound religious and moral instruction; al
though in after life, William found many a
early-taught dogma to reject, and some Sc
tartan shackles to shake off, yet the goo
teaching of those years has given a tone
the whole life of the man.
He remained with the kind hearted deacC
until he was eleven, when his mother toe
him to live with her at Lynn. He had, hoy
ever, during these years, been to school, hi
learned to read and write, and in the interva
of learning had helped the good old man
split wood for the inhabitants of the town.
During the last six months of his abode he
he was Put to a grammar school, which a