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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 4: Pennsylvania Hall.—the non-resistance society.—1838. (search)
doubt that this individual acted under an illusion cast about him by his own powerful imagination. His purpose, no doubt, was, like Moses or like Mahomet, to effect a great revolution in civil society, and to be the founder of a new basis of civil and social institutions. Compare Edmund Quincy's tribute to the same individual as one of those rare spirits which Heaven, at distant periods, sends upon the earth on holiest missions. . . . The only righteous in a world perverse (Speech on Jan. 26, 1838, before the Mass. A. S. Society in the Representatives' Hall of the State House; Lib. 8: 21, 22). This was complimentary in comparison with the accusations brought against Mr. Garrison by Cresson's brother-in-law and fellow-colonizationist, the Rev. Mr. Dickey, who publicly accused the editor of the Liberator Lib. 8.27, 46. of Fanny Wrightism—of advocating the equal division of property, the prostration of all law, the abrogation of marriage, and the promiscuous intercourse of the