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[233] Chillon, after their descent of the Tete Noire pass; and at Interlaken they tarried more than a week, making the1 usual excursions to Berne, and Lauterbrunnen, and Giessbach, and revelling in the view of the peerless Jungfrau. The last half of the month was spent quietly at Lucerne, under less propitious skies, and without the lively companionship of their friends. After an ascent of the Rigi,2 and a glimpse of Zurich, the Falls of the Rhine, and3 Constance, Mr. Garrison and his son returned to England by way of Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Frankfort, and Brussels,4 seeing the Rhine, also, from Mayence to Cologne.5

One more week was given to London, and two evenings6 of this were occupied by receptions and suppers tendered by the National Freedmen's Aid Union, at Devonshire7 House, the headquarters of the Society of Friends in London, and the National Temperance League, in the8 Strand. The former was presided over by the venerable and indefatigable abolitionist, Joseph Cooper, whom Mr. Garrison had met on his first visit to England; at the latter, the famous caricaturist, George Cruikshank, was present, and made a humorous and lively speech, though then just entering his 76th year. On both occasions, George Thompson shared the honors and the speaking with Mr. Garrison; and at Birmingham and Leeds, also, where large and enthusiastic meetings were held, they both spoke with much vigor. That at Birmingham was under the auspices of the National Freedmen's Aid Union and the Birmingham and Midland Freedmen's Aid Association, and was preceded by a breakfast to Mr. Garrison, at which an ex-Confederate General, R. V. Richardson of Tennessee, spoke and made voluntary confession that the freedmen ‘were confiding, warm-hearted, faithful, sympathetic, possessed of great physical energy and power, and only required to be educated to make excellent citizens.’9

1 Sept. 5-13, 1867.

2 Sept. 27.

3 Sept. 29, 30.

4 Oct. 2-8.

5 Oct. 6.

6 Oct. 9-16.

7 Oct. 14.

8 Oct. 15.

9 ‘I am writing this with a Southern Confederate General (Richardson of Tennessee) by my side, and a Major (Saunders) of the same stripe—both very courteous, friendly, complimentary! What strange things turn up in the course of time!’ (Ms. Oct. 19, 1867, W. L. G. to H. E. G.)

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