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Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 16: the pioneer makes a new and startling departure. (search)
excuses, or twaddle. Garrison flung himself into the anti-Texas movement with all his customary force and fire. Elected a delegate to the Faneuil Hall Convention by the influence of Francis Jackson, he took a leading part in its proceedings, created the most stir in the whole matter, Wendell Phillips thought. Charles Sumner, who heard him speak for the first time, was struck with his natural eloquence, and described his words as falling in fiery rain. Again at a mass meeting for Middlesex County, held at Concord, to consider the aggressions of the slave-power, did the words of the pioneer fall in fiery rain. Apprehensive that the performance of Massachusetts, when the emergency arose, would fall far short of her protestations, he exclaimed, I have nothing to say, sir, nothing. I am tired of words, tired of hearing strong things said, where there is no heart to carry them out. When we are prepared to state the whole truth, and die for it, if necessary-when, like our fath