Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3

Colver was efficiently seconded by Torrey, temporarily¹ conducting the Massachusetts Abolitionist, who brought the most cruel accusations against Collins's integrity and manhood; and by Phelps, who dressed up Mrs. Chapman's report of his own remarks at the Chardon-Street Convention, and gave his personal coloring to what was said by others—all to prove the Convention's infidel character and Mr. Garrison's complicity. This he first ventilated in the New England Christian Advocate,² and³ then despatched abroad through the sectarian channels controlled by the London Committee. Mr. Garrison's reply was prompt, and warmed with a natural⁴ indignation, for to the charge of infidelity were added fresh insinuations of ‘no marriage’ doctrines, calculated to⁵ horrify still more the English mind. In fact, Phelps's⁶ ‘priestly candor and magnanimity’ proved more injurious than Colver's and Torrey's combined defamation, and caused great temporary damage abroad.

Colver's effrontery was equal to a reaffirmation of his falsehoods on the platform of the Massachusetts ⁷ Anti-Slavery Society at its ninth annual meeting, where they had come up for emphatic condemnation.

Edmund Quincy to J. A. Collins, in England.

Dedham, Jan. 30, 1841.

⁸ The annual meeting is just over, and went off in the best⁹ possible manner. . . .

The morning of the first day (Wednesday, 27th) was taken up by Garrison's report,¹⁰ which, for a marvel, was finished and printed (!) before the meeting. . . .

In the afternoon (Thursday) we passed a severe resolution on Colver's letters to the London Committee-he being present. Bradburn was down upon him in his usual tomahawk and¹¹ scalping-knife style. Colver then made a most demoniacal speech, saying but little on the subject-matter, but wandering over the