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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)
I enjoyed the account of your meeting in the Standard. Garrison is bringing up the rear like a good captain. Our dear chief (as Florence Nightingale calls Sidney Herbert) is one to be proud of. He is so great as a social reformer that, as H. M. [Harriet Martineau] says, in her sketch of him in the Once a Week, he is too great, as such, to be a representative man at present; however, his example may raise up a class hereafter. I wonder why we have never republished that sketch? I dare say Johnson did not see it, and Garrison would not give it out for the Liberator (Ms. Nov. 2, 1861). Mr. Garrison found many of his Quaker friends deeply troubled by the fact that their sons, whom they had supposed firmly grounded in the peace principles of their Society, had been among the earliest to catch the infection of patriotic fervor and enlist in the army, and there was scarcely a household from which one or more of the young men had not gone forth to the conflict. I told them, he said, with