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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 2: the hour and the man.—1862. (search)
a rising vote, fully recognized these, however, while emphasizing what remained to be done. At the New York meetings, earlier May 6. in the month, he presented a carefully prepared Statement of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Lib. 32.74. referring to the omission of the annual meeting the previous year, and defining the position of the Society in view of the altered state of things. In a letter urging the preparation of this Statement, Gerrit Smith wrote (April 16) to Mr. Garrison: There is one point at which the meeting should, in my judgment, put forth a clear defence of the Garrisonian abolitionist. His influence, especially in the case of such a man as yourself or Wendell Phillips, is too important to the cause of freedom that injustice should be allowed to impair it. The Garrisonian abolitionist was formerly a Disunionist, and is now a Unionist; and hence he is charged with being inconsistent, or at least with being a convert. . . . There is a