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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 1: no union with non-slaveholders!—1861. (search)
t be no needless turning of popular violence upon ourselves, by any false step of our own. The Superintendent of Police in New York (John A. Kennedy), who had promised ample protection to the meetings of the Society in case they should be held and any violence attempted, on the pretext of suppressing disunionism, had formerly been secretary of an anti-slavery society in Baltimore, and a partner of Benjamin Lundy in publishing the Genius prior to 1827, when he removed to New York (Ms. April 13, 1861, Oliver Johnson to W. L. G.). The omission of the annual meeting called forth private protests and expressions of regret from a few anti-slavery friends, who deemed it a sacrifice of principle and dereliction from duty, and thought the outlook for the slave never more depressing than then. It was with these in mind, no less than the New Haven correspondent to whom he was more directly replying, that Mr. Garrison wrote: There seems to be some diversity of feeling and sentiment