Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 7: the World's Convention.

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[381] respective legislatures. But, after all, it was the ironical fate of the Convention to stand rather as a landmark in the history of the woman question, than in that of abolition.¹ For in respect to the grand theatre of the world's anti-slavery struggle, the British and Foreign Society were destined to intervene as obstructionists. ‘They will now, I think,’ wrote Mr. Phillips prophetically in² June, ‘take sides in our disputes; . . . and they will take sides, most of them, with the new organization. I except the Scottish and the Irish Friends.’

W. L. Garrison to his wife.

London, June 29, 1840.
³ I have now been in London eleven days, and, for the first time since my arrival, take up my pen to send you a hasty epistle by the British Queen—having been too busy to despatch any letters home until now. . . .
The first thing which you and the household, and all our anti-slavery friends, will wish to hear about, is the Convention. On the score of respectability, talent and numbers, it deserves

1 It is commonly treated, with some injustice to the Grimkes, as the initial cause of the woman-suffrage movement in the United States as well as in England. See chap. 3, p. 62, in vol. 1, of Mrs. Stanton's “History of woman suffrage.”

2 Lib. 10.119.

3 Ms.

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