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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) 67.: William Lloyd Garrison 29 JUNE, 1867 - The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868
67.: William Lloyd Garrison 29 JUNE, 1867 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868 [1850]Edition used:The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868, ed. John M. Robson and Bruce L. Kinzer (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988).
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- Introduction
- Textual Introduction
- Public and Parliamentary Speeches 1850–1873
- November 1850 to July 1865
- 1.: Secular Education After 4 November, 1850?
- 2.: Cooperation 28 March, 1864
- 3.: Corruption At Elections 4 April, 1864
- 4.: Hare’s Plan For the Metropolis 10 April, 1865
- 5.: The Westminster Election of 1865 [1] 3 July, 1865
- 6.: The Westminster Election of 1865 [2] 5 July, 1865
- 7.: The Westminster Election of 1865 [3] 6 July, 1865
- 8.: The Westminster Election of 1865 [4] 8 July, 1865
- 9.: The Westminster Election of 1865 [5] 10 July, 1865
- 10.: The Westminster Election of 1865 [6] 10 July, 1865
- 11.: The Westminster Election of 1865 [7] 12 July, 1865
- February to August 1866:
- 12. The Cattle Diseases Bill [1] 14 February, 1866
- 13.: The Cattle Diseases Bill [2] 16 February, 1866
- 14.: Suspension of Habeas Corpus In Ireland 17 February, 1866
- 15.: Representation of the People [1] 12 April, 1866
- 16.: Representation of the People [2] 13 April, 1866
- 17.: Representation of the People [3] 16 April, 1866
- 18.: The Malt Duty 17 April, 1866
- 19.: Inclosure of Hainault Forest 25 April, 1866
- 20.: Representation of the People [4] 26 April, 1866
- 21.: Chichester Fortescue’s Land Bill 17 May, 1866
- 22.: Representation of the People [5] 31 May, 1866
- 23.: The Ministerial Crisis 23 June, 1866
- 24.: The Jamaica Committee 9 July, 1866
- 25.: Electoral Franchise For Women 17 July, 1866
- 26.: The Disturbances In Jamaica [1] 19 July, 1866
- 27.: The Reform Meeting In Hyde Park [1] 19 July, 1866
- 28.: W.e. Gladstone [1] 21 July, 1866
- 29.: The Reform Meeting In Hyde Park [2] 24 July, 1866
- 30.: The Value of Land 25 July, 1866
- 31.: The Reform Meeting In Hyde Park [3] 26 July, 1866
- 32.: The Reform Meeting In Hyde Park [4] 30 July, 1866
- 33.: The Disturbances In Jamaica [2] 31 July, 1866
- 34.: The Reform Meeting In Hyde Park [5] 2 August, 1866
- 35.: Public Health 2 August, 1866
- 36.: The Extradition Treaties Act [1] 3 August, 1866
- 37.: The Extradition Treaties Act [2] 4 August, 1866
- 38.: The Naval Dockyards 4 August, 1866
- 39.: The Extradition Treaties Act [3] 6 August, 1866
- 40.: The Disturbances In Jamaica [3] 10 August, 1866
- 41.: The Lord Chief Baron 10 August, 1866
- February to August 1867
- 42.: Political Progress 4 February, 1867
- 43.: Goldwin Smith 4 February, 1867
- 44.: The Royal Commission On Trades’ Unions 15 February, 1867
- 45.: The Metropolitan Poor Bill [1] 8 March, 1867
- 46.: The Straits Settlements 8 March, 1867
- 47.: The Metropolitan Poor Bill [2] 8 March, 1867
- 48.: The Metropolitan Poor Bill [3] 11 March, 1867
- 49.: The Metropolitan Poor Bill [4] 14 March, 1867
- 50.: The Reform Bill [1] 8 April, 1867
- 51.: Trades Unions 10 April, 1867
- 52.: The Reform Bill [2] 11 April, 1867
- 53.: The Reform Bill [3] 9 May, 1867
- 54.: The Reform Bill [4] 17 May, 1867
- 55.: The Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise 20 May, 1867
- 56.: The Municipal Corporations Bill 21 May, 1867
- 57.: The Fenian Convicts 25 May, 1867
- 58.: Reform of Parliament 25 May, 1867
- 59.: The Reform Bill [5] 27 May, 1867
- 60.: Personal Representation 30 May, 1867
- 61.: The Bankruptcy Acts Repeal Bill 4 June, 1867
- 62.: Petition Concerning the Fenians 14 June, 1867
- 63.: The Sunday Lectures Bill 19 June, 1867
- 64.: The Libel Bill 25 June, 1867
- 65.: The Reform Bill [6] 27 June, 1867
- 66.: Redistribution 28 June, 1867
- 67.: William Lloyd Garrison 29 June, 1867
- 68.: Martial Law 2 July, 1867
- 69.: The Reform Bill [7] 4 July, 1867
- 70.: Tancred’s Charity Bill 4 July, 1867
- 71.: The Reform Bill [8] 5 July, 1867
- 72.: The Case of Fulford and Wellstead 5 July, 1867
- 73.: The Reform Bill [9] 15 July, 1867
- 74.: Commodore Wiseman and the Turkish Navy [1] 16 July, 1867
- 75.: Commodore Wiseman and the Turkish Navy [2] 22 July, 1867
- 76.: Meetings In Royal Parks [1] 22 July, 1867
- 77.: Public Education 29 July, 1867
- 78.: The Courts-martial In Jamaica 1 August, 1867
- 79.: Meeting In the Tea-room of the House of Commons 2 August, 1867
- 80.: England’s Danger Through the Suppression of Her Maritime Power 5 August, 1867
- 81.: The Extradition Treaties Act [4] 6 August, 1867
- 82.: The Metropolitan Government Bill 7 August, 1867
- 83.: The Reform Bill [10] 8 August, 1867
- 84.: East India Revenue 12 August, 1867
- 85.: Meetings In Royal Parks [2] 13 August, 1867
- February to November 1868
- 86.: Proportional Representation and Redistribution 29 February, 1868
- 87.: The Alabama Claims 6 March, 1868
- 88.: The State of Ireland 12 March, 1868
- 89.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [1] 26 March, 1868
- 90.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [2] 2 April, 1868
- 91.: Procedure In the House: Amendments 21 April, 1868
- 92.: Capital Punishment 21 April, 1868
- 93.: The Municipal Corporations (metropolis) Bill [1] 5 May, 1868
- 94.: The Established Church In Ireland 7 May, 1868
- 95.: Local Charges On Real Property 12 May, 1868
- 96.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [3] 21 May, 1868
- 97.: Representation of the People (scotland) [1] 28 May, 1868
- 98.: Representation of the People (scotland) [2] 8 June, 1868
- 99.: Married Women’s Property 10 June, 1868
- 100.: Registration of Publication 12 June, 1868
- 101.: Representation of the People (ireland) 15 June, 1868
- 102.: The Government of India Bill [1] 15 June, 1868
- 103.: Lodger Registration 15 June, 1868
- 104.: Public Schools [1] 16 June, 1868
- 105.: The Municipal Corporations (metropolis) Bill [2] 17 June, 1868
- 106.: The Government of India Bill [2] 22 June, 1868
- 107.: Public Schools [2] 23 June, 1868
- 108.: The Sea-fisheries (ireland) Bill 24 June, 1868
- 109.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [4] 25 June, 1868
- 110.: The Municipal Corporations (metropolis) Bill [3] 30 June, 1868
- 111.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [5] 6 July, 1868
- 112.: Public Schools [3] 7 July, 1868
- 113.: Supply—post Office 7 July, 1868
- 114.: The Government of India Bill [3] 8 July, 1868
- 115.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [6] 10 July, 1868
- 116.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [7] 14 July, 1868
- 117.: The Fenian Prisoners [1] 16 July, 1868
- 118.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [8] 17 July, 1868
- 119.: Poor Relief [1] 17 July, 1868
- 120.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [9] 18 July, 1868
- 121.: Imprisonment For Costs On a Dismissed Charge [1] 21 July, 1868
- 122.: The Fenian Prisoners [2] 21 July, 1868
- 123.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [10] 22 July, 1868
- 124.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [1] 22 July, 1868
- 125.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [11] 23 July, 1868
- 126.: Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices At Elections [12] 24 July, 1868
- 127.: Smoking In Railway Carriages [1] 24 July, 1868
- 128.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [2] 24 July, 1868
- 129.: The Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Market 25 July, 1868
- 130.: Smoking In Railway Carriages [2] 25 July, 1868
- 131.: Imprisonment For Costs On a Dismissed Charge [2] 27 July, 1868
- 132.: Poor Relief [2] 27 July, 1868
- 133.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [3] 2 November, 1868
- 134.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [4] 4 November, 1868
- 135.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [5] 6 November, 1868
- 136.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [6] 9 November, 1868
- 137.: Fawcett For Brighton 10 November, 1868
- 138.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [7] 11 November, 1868
- 139.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [8] 13 November, 1868
- 140.: W.e. Gladstone [2] 14 November, 1868
- 141.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [9] 16 November, 1868
- 142.: The Westminster Election of 1868 [10] 18 November, 1868
67.
William Lloyd Garrison
29 JUNE, 1867
Proceedings at the Public Breakfast Held in Honour of William Lloyd Garrison, Esq., of Boston, Massachusetts, in St. James’s Hall, London, on Saturday, June 29th, 1867. Revised by the Speakers; with an Introduction by F.W. Chesson, and Opinions of the Press (London: Tweedie, 1868), pp. 33–5. Reported in full in the Morning Star, and much compressed in the Daily News; the Daily Telegraph gives only a one-sentence summary of Mill’s remarks. Some 300–400 people, including a large number of women, sat down to breakfast, with John Bright in the Chair. After letters were read from the American Ambassador and the Comte de Paris, regretting their inability to attend, Bright gave a lengthy eulogy of William Lloyd Garrison (1805–79), the prominent anti-slavery advocate and pacifist. Then George Douglas Campbell (1823–1900), Duke of Argyll, read an address to Garrison composed by Goldwin Smith. Argyll was followed by Lord Russell; then Mill spoke. mr. chairman, ladies, and gentlemen,—The speakers who have preceded me have, with an eloquence far beyond anything which I can command, laid before our honoured guest the homage of admiration and gratitude which we all feel is due to his heroic life. Instead of idly expatiating upon things which have been far better said than I could say them, I would rather endeavour to recall one or two lessons applicable to ourselves, which may be drawn from his career. A noble work nobly done always contains in itself, not one, but many lessons; and in the case of him whose character and deeds we are here to commemorate, two may be singled out specially deserving to be laid to heart by all who would wish to leave the world better than they found it.
The first lesson is,—Aim at something great; aim at things which are difficult; and there is no great thing which is not difficult. (Hear, hear.) Fear not the reproach of Quixotism you have well weighed what you undertake, if you see your way clearly, and are convinced that you are right, go forward, even though you, like Mr. Garrison, do it at the risk of being torn to pieces by the very men through whose changed hearts your purpose will one day be accomplished. (Cheers.) band of supporters. (Hear, hear.) If you are right, the time will come when that small band will swell into a multitude: you will at least lay the foundations of something memorable, and you may, like Mr. Garrison—though you ought not to need or expect so great a reward—be spared to see that work completed which, when you began it, you only hoped it might be given to you to help forward a few stages on its way. (Cheers.)
The other lesson which it appears to me important to enforce, amongst the many that may be drawn from our friend’s life, is this: if you aim at something noble and succeed in it, you will generally find that you have succeeded not in that alone. A hundred other good and noble things which you never dreamed of will have been accomplished by the way, and the more certainly, the sharper and more agonizing has been the struggle which preceded the victory. The heart and mind of a nation are never stirred from their foundations without manifold good fruits. In the case of the great American contest, these fruits have been already great, and are daily becoming greater. The prejudices which —and of which there was a plentiful crop in America—are rapidly melting away. The chains of prescription have been broken; it is not only the slave who has been freed —the mind of America has been emancipated. (Loud cheers.) The whole intellect of the country has been set thinking about the fundamental questions of society and government; and the new problems which have to be solved, and the new difficulties which have to be encountered, , probably for a long time to come, from the most formidable danger of a completely settled state of society and opinion—intellectual and moral stagnation. (Hear, hear.) This, then, is an additional item of the debt which America and mankind owe to Mr. Garrison and his noble associates; and it is well calculated to deepen our sense of the truth which his whole career most strikingly illustrates—that though our best directed efforts may often seem wasted and lost, nothing coming of them that can be pointed to and distinctly identified as a definite gain to humanity; though this may happen ninety-nine times in every hundred, the hundredth time the result may be so great and dazzling that we had never dared to hope for it, and should have regarded him who had predicted it to us as sanguine beyond the bounds of mental sanity. So has it been with Mr. Garrison. (Loud cheers.)
[The address was passed unanimously, and Garrison spoke to great applause. Other speeches followed, and the meeting concluded with the customary vote of thanks to the Chair.]
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