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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)
laration that the only force which can reach the citadel is the ballot-box, and that the ballot-box is the only peaceful mode of securing abolition, Alvan Stewart wrote to the Emancipator in January, 1840: An independent abolition political party is the only hope for the redemption of the slave (Mass. Abolitionist, 2.1). And this sentiment of Abraham L. Pennock's, of Pennsylvania, What an absurdity is moral action apart from political, was expressly endorsed as his own by Whittier in February, 1841 ([Mass. Abol.] Free American, 3.13). we recognize a new departure, which led directly up to the election of Abraham Lincoln—and to civil war. Nevertheless, the desideratum for a third party,— actual nominations,—was wanting. A special meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society had been appointed for October 23 at Cleveland, Ohio, and was Life of Myron Holley, p. 252; Lib. 9.163. urged in advance by Myron Holley and thirteen of his Rochester townsmen to name an anti-slavery Presid<