Mr. Garrison had but two full days in Glasgow,3 the first being Sunday, when, sight-seeing being out of the question, leisure was perhaps given to read the document referred to in the following letter:[398] and also a cheering letter from my beloved friend Johnson.1 The great moral conflict on our shores continues to increase in intensity, but, thanks be to God! I am glad to perceive no faltering on the part of the tried friends and champions of humanity. But, O! what heart-sickening, what astounding, what almost incredible developments of character are making on the part of those who have seceded from the old anti-slavery platform! Well, whatever is hidden must and should be made manifest in the light. If it must be so, let God be true, and2 every man a liar. I pant to be in the conflict, and at my old post, which I will be—Deo volente —in the course of four or five weeks. George Thompson is with us, in heart and spirit, and clearly perceives which party has truth, justice and freedom on its side in America.
W. L. Garrison to Marcus Gunn, Edinburgh.
Glasgow, July 27, 1840.4 In the midst of the most pressing engagements, I have found time to read your Essay on the Domestic Policy of the United States, and have been greatly pleased with it. It evinces much discrimination, and is a just exhibition of the superiority of the American form of government over every other now existing in the world. Its publication in this country, at the present time, I am inclined to think, would be serviceable to the sacred cause of human rights. A monarchy is accompanied by many evil and bitter things, and is destined to pass away, in the fulness of time, in whatever country it may at present be found. I am for no other change, however, than such as may be effected by peaceable and moral means; for ‘they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.’ God grant a speedy deliverance to all mankind from all their burdens, and
