[53] Typographical blunders meet my eye rather too frequently. But it is a blundering world. . . . Accompanying this is an excellently written epistle, both as to its composition and its penmanship, from Rachel Robinson, wife of Rowland T. Robinson, of Ferrisburgh, Vt. . . . Not a particle of the productions of slave labor, whether it be rice, sugar, coffee, cotton, molasses, tobacco, or flour, is used in her family, and thus her practice corresponds admirably with her doctrine. But I cannot say that I have as yet arrived at clear satisfaction upon this point, so as to be able to meet the difficulties that cluster in our path. Mr. Sabin has started the rumor that the Liberator is to be printed in this village! and considerable oppugnation has been manifested, it is said, on the part of the ‘friends of the Constitution.’ They will not have it here—not they! This is very amusing, and serves to lessen the amount of melancholy in our sombre world. Think you, the dignity and self-importance of little villages are behind those of great cities? I tell you, nay. Did not Canterbury take the lead? And did not New York, Philadelphia and Boston obsequiously follow? You must not calculate upon my being present at your State Convention in February. A crisis comes at or about that time to me and mine, which is of too much importance to allow me to be absent. It relates, you know, to a question of domestic emancipation —and let the South interfere if it dare!
W. L. Garrison to Henry E. Benson, at Boston.
Brooklyn, December 5, 1835.1 Your safe arrival at Boston has removed a load of anxiety from all our minds, and filled us with joy . . . . The Liberator was received yesterday, and its contents eagerly and critically perused. Bro. Thompson's farewell2 letter is most happily conceived, and powerfully expressed, and well calculated to revive the hearts of our abolition brethren. With what alarm and fury will our enemies read his promise to expose their baseness and cruelty before the people of Great Britain-even to call them by name! He will hardly be safe from their murderous designs, even with the Atlantic rolling between. How earnestly do I desire that he may have a safe voyage, and that all those vitally important
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