John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison

[19] always concerned — was punished immediately. The most natural impulses, the most simple acts of human piety could be indulged in only through an initiation of fierce pain, generally followed by social ostracism. The right to draw one's breath involved a struggle with Apollyon.

“ Only a few days before one of our meetings,” writes Henry I. Bowditch, one of Garrison's early recruits from the social world of Boston, “a young lady had hoped that I ‘would never become an Abolitionist,’ and about the same time Frederick Douglass appeared as a runaway slave. He was at the meeting in Marlboroa Chapel. Of course I was introduced to him, and, as I would have invited a white friend, I asked him home to dine with me in my small abode in Bedford Street. It is useless to deny that I did not like the thought of walking with him in open midday up Washington Street. I hoped I would not meet any of my acquaintances. I had, however, hardly turned into the street before I met the young lady who had expressed her wish as above stated. I am glad now to say that I did not skulk. I looked at her straight and bowed in ‘my most gracious manner’ as if I were ‘all right,’ while I saw by her look of regret that ”