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Excerpt from William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance: Together With a Personal Sketch Had weapons been used in my father's de fence, death would certainly have been his portion. As it was the mob placed a rope around him and dragged him through the streets, intending-to lynch him, until he was rescued by the Mayor of Boston and a strong force of police. It was stated by eye witnesses that Mr. Garrison's composure was never ruflled during this soul-searching ex perience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Helen Frances “Fanny” Garrison Villard was born on December 16, 1844, in Boston, Massachusets. She was the fourth child of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and Helen Eliza (Benson) Garrison.
Named for her mother and paternal grandmother, Fanny (as she was always called) grew up a healthy, beautiful child, in a home surcharged with the exciting atmosphere of the greatest reform movement in American history.
Educated in the Winthrop School, Boston, Villard spent her early years in close contact with the abolition struggle.
Mrs. Villard during her life was centered in her family and in the career of her husband, which involved much travel in the United States and abroad and another prolonged visit to Germany (1883 - 86). The death of her husband in November 1900 marked the beginning of her public career. Possessed of wealth and leisure and her father's crusading spirit, she found she could make an excellent platform appearance and command a loyal following.
With intense and widely extended activity, she now gave herself to philanthropy and social reform. In the great tradition of her father, she participated in the militant work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, serving as a member of its advisory committee.
Always a woman suffragist, she labored indefatigably until victory came with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. For many years (1897 - 1922) she headed the Diet Kitchen Association, which under her leadership first established public milk stations for infants and children in New York City. In her last years, she devoted her best energies to the cause of peace, which she interpreted, as did her father, in terms of absolute non-resistance.
At the close of the World War, she gathered about her a determined group of pacifists and in October 1919, founded the Women's Peace Society, which she led as president until her death. In 1921, at the Conference of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, in Vienna, she presented resolutions calling for "non-resistance under all circumstances immediate, universal, and complete disarmament, absolute freedom of trade the world over".
She died in her eighty-fourth year and was buried at her home at Dobbs Ferry.
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Fanny Garrison Villard was a woman of infinite charm and grace. Her inward serenity of mind and sweetness of temper matched the outward beauty of her person. Her exquisite refinement was salted by a high sense of humor and an intense absorption in current affairs. Her gentleness and culture as wife and mother revealed themselves in later years as the adornments of a courage and rock-like resolution which were the central elements of her character.
Her father lived in her again. No one who saw the spectacle will forget her marching up Fifth Avenue in her old age at the head of the women's peace parade, her white head, crowned with its little black bonnet, nodding its defiance at the hostile but admiring crowds. A lady in personal bearing and social caste, she was democratic to the core, an ardent lover of mankind, and a passionate and valiant idealist.
After the Civil War, on January 3, 1866, Helen Frances married Henry Villard, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Daily Tribune. After an extended visit to Europe (July 1866 - June 1, 1868), the young couple settled in Boston, where a daughter was born to them in 1868, and a son in 1870.
During another visit to Germany in 1872, a second son was born. In 1876, the Villards established their home in New York, and in 1879, acquired a summer estate at Dobbs Ferry, New York, where their fourth child, a son, was born and died.
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