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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 13: the Bible Convention.—1853. (search)
press in this country is as foul as the gutter, and as unprincipled as the father of lies. Most of the proprietors and editors more richly deserve a place in the penitentiary than many of its inmates; for they sin as with a cartrope, and on the largest and most comprehensive scale. It is a terrible sign of general corruption. To pass the time, on Sunday, October 16, Mr. Garrison Ms. Oct. 17, 1853, W. L. G. to H. E. G. crossed the Detroit River, and first set foot on Canadian soil at Windsor—a fit place, as it was largely populated by fugitives from the United States. He walked also to the neighboring Sandwich, likewise a place of refuge from American tyranny, and saw the barracks (formerly occupied by British soldiers) which, winter before last, were opened to shelter the crowd of fugitive slaves then hastening to that spot, to prevent them from perishing. Returning to Detroit, he addressed the colored citizens in the evening in one of their three churches, the Methodist, a