My health has been extremely good since I left Brooklyn,2 for which, as well as for other mercies, continual gratitude is due to God. My mind is in a peaceful and happy frame; for faith, and hope, and love make it their abode. I desire to cease wholly from man, and to rely upon nothing but the promises of Him who cannot lie. . . . The spirit of the Lord is now striving mightily with this nation, and the nation is striving as mightily to quench it; and in doing so, it is revealing to the eyes of an astonished world an amount of depravity and heathenism that makes the name of our Christianity a reproach. Nevertheless, let the worst appear; let not our sin be covered up; let the number of the rebels, and the extent of the rebellion, fully appear; let all that is dangerous, or hypocritical, or unjust among us be proclaimed upon the house-tops; and then the genuine disciples of Christ will be able skilfully and understandingly to carry on the war. A larger number than Gideon had is left to us, and the same omnipotent arm is ready to be bared in our defence.On parting from his brother-in-law, Mr. Garrison proceeded to the Anti-Slavery Office, and in the course of the forenoon was visited by a deputy-marshal from the3 Mayor's office, to inquire whether Mr. Thompson was to4 address the meeting, or was in town. Mayor Lyman had the day before been petitioned by the occupants of stores in the neighborhood of 46 Washington Street to prevent the meeting, for fear of damage in case of a disturbance. The air was full of gathering violence, which the Mayor hoped to be able to draw off harmless5 by the simple announcement to the mob that Thompson
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no names were mentioned.
Mr. Thompson's presence was not ‘deemed to be essential or expedient, either by1 himself or the Society.
He therefore left the city on Tuesday, that there might be no pretext for causing an interruption of the meeting on the ensuing day.’
On the morning of Wednesday Mr. Garrison attended Henry Benson to the cars for Providence, placing in his hands a letter addressed to George Benson, of which the following extracts were a part:
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