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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 11: George Thompson, M. P.—1851. (search)
en for the enslavement of an entire nation of another complexion. While that institution lasts, the experiment of men to govern themselves has not been proved to be a successful one; for there is no virtue in loving freedom for ourselves. Of the Syracusans at least this selfish love of freedom could not be predicated. The freemen's spirit which had welcomed Thompson and the American Anti-Slavery Society, in confirmation of the local defiance of the Fugitive Slave Law, wrested, on October 1, 1851, the slave Jerry Lib.21.162,166. by force from the clutches of the police, and rebuked the dishonoring prophecy of the apostate Webster. Ante, P. 331 Samuel J. May to Miss Charlotte G. Coffin. A sister of Mrs. May. Syracuse, Oct. 15, 1851 [Oct. 16]. Ms. I am too busy to write you a long letter, but I must write a few lines to relieve your anxiety to know what is the present aspect of our controversy with the Government. After a fortnight's diligent search after mate