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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 5: shall the Liberator lead—1839. (search)
ll doubted if such were the fact, and doubted his own duty. Lib. 9.198. Mr. Garrison dubbed the action folly, and said of the Lib. 9.195. nominees: We have too much confidence in the self-respect and good sense of these gentlemen to suppose that they will countenance a movement of this kind. They will decline this nomination. So in fact they did—Birney (December 17, 1839) on Lib. 10.6. the ground that the time was not yet ripe, and that the abolitionists would be divided; Le Moyne (December 10) on similar grounds of expediency, but also because the anti-slavery reformation is emphatically a religious enterprise, and the prominent measures for its accomplishment ought to be of a consistent character. Now, he continued, if we make political action so promi- Lib. 10.6. nent, will there not be some ground for those who have continually an evil eye upon us, to charge that we have lost our first confidence in strict moral means, and that we are now compelled to resort to means w