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and systematic measures of the
State’ ‘They are appalled by what seem to them the perils and difficulties of liberating multitudes, born and brought up to that condition’!
Here is a mantle of charity(?) broad enough to cover the sin of the world.
I hope uncommon pains will be taken by our abolition brethren to circulate large quantities of this week's
Liberator before the types are distributed.
Bro.
Thompson's letter is full of the majesty of truth and the power of love.
The defense of his character is most happily written, and together they ought to traverse the length and breadth of the land.
‘He has gone!’
wrote
Mr. Garrison in the
Liberator,
1 of
George Thompson's departure.
‘The paragon of modern eloquence—the benefactor of two nations— the universal philanthropist—the servant of God, and the friend of all mankind—is no longer in our midst.
He has gone!
But not to cease from his labors in the cause of mercy.
He has a mighty work to perform in
England. . . . It is by the pressure of public sentiment abroad, as well as at home, that the bloody system is to be tumbled into ruins.’
Only the lapse of years, in fact, could disclose the full import of that American mission which
Mr. Garrison had instigated, and which, even had it ended here, must have been pronounced successful.
2 The moral and material alliance with
England, already ensured by his own visit to that country, was now, however, to be indissolubly cemented by
Mr. Thompson's expulsion from the
United States.
In a parting letter to
Henry C. Wright, dated
St. John, N. B., November 25, 1835, the fugitive laid down the programme to be faithfully carried out in his native land:
In leaving America I consulted usefulness, not safety. 3 Understand me. I believe my life was sought.
I believe many were prepared to take it—many more prepared to rejoice over the deed; and I left your country under the conviction that I
