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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
hren drag the chain Which not even Russia's menials wear? The truth is, that had Thompson and Stuart had a pro-slavery message to deliver, their nativity would have been forgotten, or made to emphasize their support of the peculiar institution. They would have been cheered and feted instead of mobbed. It was the human nil a me alienum He knew it might be asked, how he could presume to make foreign matters the subject of his criticism and condemnation. He would answer in the words of Terence—Homo sum: nil humani a me alienum puto. . . . The apostolic precept, Remember them that are in bonds, was restricted in its application by no territorial limitations (George Thompson at Edinburgh, November, 1833 (Lib. 4.58). See also his speech at the second annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society (Lib. 5.82). which made them foreigners, as it had already, in the eyes of slaveholders and their apologists, denationalized the abolitionists of the North. Now Ante, p. 389. let e