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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)
lled for special objects at the West. It was local in its representation, being confined chiefly to Ohio. The measure was as extraordinary as would have been a dissolution of the Society, and therefore our auxiliary societies would have been aggrieved by it, greatly. A nomination made before we see whether the parties will put up anybody for whom we can go, would, by the mass of our friends, have been deemed premature—and had we made a nomination, and the Whigs had put up Scott General Winfield Scott, just then prominent in connection with the troubles on the Canadian border. and John Davis, and we had called a Convention in New York State to nominate an A. S. electoral ticket, that Conven- tion would have declared it inexpedient to do so, and thus nullified the whole thing. It would have been thought a trick, getting away out here and doing what we knew we could not do at the centre. No; so extraordinary a move as the nomination of national candidates, in my opinion, should n