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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 8: the Liberator—1831. (search)
lege in this place by every lawful means. Before this respectable opposition the flattering estimate of the humanity of the inhabitants fell, together with all hope of making their city the seat of the college. On his way back to Boston Mr. Garrison delivered in Thoughts on Colonization, p. 149. New Haven (the hot-bed of African Colonization) an address inimical to the Colonization Society, which was officially replied to immediately after his departure. At Lib. 1.109. this time (July 11) he writes to his friend Ebenezer Dole, who had called upon him in his absence: I am truly rejoiced to learn that you are no colonizationist. Ms. I say rejoiced—because, after the most candid and prayerful investigation, I am persuaded the Colonization Society is based upon wrong principles; and, as for its leading doctrines, my judgment tells me they are abhorrent. Like many other good people, I was myself, for a time, deceived with regard to its character and tendency. I took th