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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 2: the hour and the man.—1862. (search)
ancipation would bring to the South, and rejoicing in the certain future prosperity of that section, anticipated the verdict which the New South, amazed by her marvellous growth and development under freedom, has already pronounced. The New South rejoices in the Union and its wide domain, and, most of all, it is proud that the blot of slavery has been removed from its escutcheon. It says, in all heartiness and sincerity, God be praised for this crowning glory of a wonderful century (James Phelan of Tennessee, in a speech prior to his election as member of Congress from the Memphis district, November, 1886). Bitter to my taste as were the results of the civil war, day after day has reconciled me to them, and convinced me of the wisdom of cheerful submission to the will of Him who brought them about. The union of these States has been preserved and declared indissoluble. A great and disturbing constitutional question has been finally and forever settled, and slavery has been f