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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
ster over the slave. The unanimity of these proceedings, and their harmony with the whole course of Mr. Garrison and his associates with reference to a pro-slavery church and ministry, portended nothing of the sectarian conspiracy against the editor of the Liberator which was shortly to interrupt his well-earned summer repose. It would be unjust to say that the signal for this was given by Dr. Channing, for it proceeded from a very different camp. Nevertheless, in the early days of January, 1837, while the fate of the Liberator hung trembling in the balance, that clergyman issued a pamphlet letter to J. G. Birney, written in the previous November on Ante, p. 98. occasion of the destruction of the Philanthropist, in which he virtually singled out the elder paper for condemnation. His language, it is true, was general, and applied to the abolitionists in the main: Their writings have been blemished by a spirit of intolerance, sweeping censure, and rash, injurious judgment. But