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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 12: Kossuth.—1852. (search)
wrote from Northampton to Mrs. Garrison: Tell Garrison that it seems to me Douglass will come out for Hale. What nonsense!—hold the Constitution to be anti-slavery, justify one's self in voting on that theory, and then vote for a man who don't agree with the theory! Ms. In practice, it made no difference which way any political abolitionist voted in November, 1852. The two preponderating parties, Whig and Democratic, at their nominating conventions, competed, in the language of Charles J. Ingersoll (who was not jesting), to vindicate Slavery as part of that American liberty which the treaty of independence recognizes, and no foreign nation must meddle with. Lib. 22.119. Bizarre and contradictory as this sounds, it represented the Free Soil attitude also towards the Constitution and the Union as they came from the hands of the founders of the Republic. All disguises are now, wrote Mr. Garrison to J. M. McKim, Ms., Boston, July 18, 1852. thrown off by the two great poli