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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 6: the schism.—1840. (search)
ociety, and practically identified itself with the corrupt pro-slavery sects of the land. See Mr. Garrison's twelve charges in support of this resolution (Lib. 10.47). The organs, speaking phrenologically, of modern Quakerism in our country, he found to be approbativeness, cautiousness, acquisitiveness, all uncommonly large, and exercising a predominating influence over all the other faculties. Two other resolutions, bearing the stamp of the editor of the Liberator, and anticipating Mr. Seward's famous dictum as to an irrepressible conflict, were also adopted at Lynn, in these words: Resolved, That Freedom and Slavery are natural and Lib. 10.46. irreconcilable enemies; that it is morally impossible for them to endure together in the same nation; and that the existence of the one can only be secured by the destruction of the other. Resolved, That slavery has exercised a pernicious and most dangerous influence in the affairs of this Union, from its foundation to the pre