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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 1: the Boston mob (second stage).—1835. (search)
en I say that my mission has far transcended my most sanguine expectations (Geo. Thompson at Glasgow, Jan. 25, 1836, Lib. 6.69. See also Letters and Addresses by Geo. Thompson during his Mission in the United States, Boston, 1837). The moral and material alliance with England, already ensured by his own visit to that country, was now, however, to be indissolubly cemented by Mr. Thompson's expulsion from the United States. In a parting letter to Henry C. Wright, dated St. John, N. B., November 25, 1835, the fugitive laid down the programme to be faithfully carried out in his native land: In leaving America I consulted usefulness, not safety. Ms. Understand me. I believe my life was sought. I believe many were prepared to take it—many more prepared to rejoice over the deed; and I left your country under the conviction that I could not go abroad without the almost certain prospect of death. But still, had there been reason to believe that by staying and falling on your soil, I