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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 5: shall the Liberator lead—1839. (search)
ould no doubt have kept as a peculiar duty, if Lundy's relatives had been favorably disposed. As it was, they chose Thomas Earle, whose very inadequate and inaccurate performance—the only Life of Lundy yet written—was published in Philadelphia in 1847. The suggestion of the Emancipator, that any materials for the purpose should be sent to Mr. Garrison (Lib. 9.206), was speedily superseded by Joseph Lundy, the father's, call for aid of this kind (Lib. 10.23), and his curious letter of Jan. 16, 1840, to Mr. Garrison, intimating the family distrust of the latter as an impartial biographer (Lib. 10.46). Whatever else we may lack, replied Mr. Garrison, we hope that we are not destitute of magnanimity. While this letter was on its way to him, he presented the following resolution at the eighth annual meeting of the Mass. A. S. Society, on Jan. 22, 1840: Resolved, That the cause of emancipation has met with a severe bereavement in the death of Benjamin Lundy, one of the earliest, the m