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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 2: the Irish address.—1842. (search)
, and arrived at Rochester (450 miles from Boston) on Sunday afternoon. Wishing to keep my rest Nov. 13. unbroken, I concluded to tarry overnight, and went to a Temperance hotel near the depot, and in the morning left for Utica, Mr. Garrison's scruples about travelling on the Sabbath had apparently vanished. arriving in that beautiful city at 2 o'clock P. M. Here I concluded Nov. 13. to remain until the next morning. On going up Genesee Street, in quest of a Temperance house, I met Alvan Stewart going to church. We shook hands with each other, and he politely asked me to go and stop with him overnight. I declined, not wishing to incur any special obligations at that time, or in that quarter; but, on his invitation, I spent the evening with him and James C. Jackson (whose headquarters are now in Utica), and we had a talk on a great variety of topics, not excepting third-partyism. I spoke very plainly on the last topic, and made them both rather uneasy; for poor James evidently