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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?George Thompson.—1834. (search)
of real to outward logic. The people of Boston should know no difference between immediate abolition and Colonization, if they are calculated to destroy the harmony which should subsist between the North and the South (Commercial Gazette, in Lib. 4.123. Cf. ante, pp. 303, 304.) The abolitionists had equally been obliged to give up a public celebration in Boston on the date of emancipation in the British West Indies. Ms. July 23, 1834, W. L. G. to S. J. May. This celebration on the 1st of August, which was continued throughout the anti-slavery struggle, was first proposed by Mr. Garrison (Lib. 4.87). The Commercial Gazette was meantime recommending the indictment by the grand jury of Garrison and his associates as public Lib. 4.118, 133. nuisances, or, in default of this, provision at the public expense with a wholesome and salutary coat of tar and feathers. Such was the Boston to which Mr. Garrison was about to bring his young bride, and to welcome George Thompson. My de