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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 7: the World's Convention.—1840. (search)
n years ago. The good man had passed away in Ante, 1.348, 350. February, leaving a name less familiar to the world at Lib. 10.51, 52. large than those of some of his coadjutors in the cause of abolition, but a solid claim to the gratitude of the oppressed hardly inferior to that of the most distinguished. See Mr. Garrison's tribute to his extraordinary liberality and activity, his urbanity, his kindness, his disinterested regard for the welfare of the human race, in the Liberator of March 27, 1840 (10.:51). The following sonnet was appended: Cropper! among the wise, the great, the good, The friends of Man, whate'er his caste or clime, Thy memory shall be hailed with gratitude, Thy labors honored to the end of time! Thine was a soul with sympathy imbued, Broad as the earth, and as the heavens sublime; Thy godlike object, steadfastly pursued, To save thy race from misery and crime. Mourn, England! for the loss thou hast sustained, And let the nations of the earth lament, With spi