Garrison . . . will not content himself with the one1 heresy of immediate emancipation, but must be ever and anon broaching others. The community had become familiarized somewhat with that, and were ceasing to mob it, and it was even growing respectable, when lo! he proclaims other heresies, and throws back the cause upon the contempt of the ‘judicious’ community. Not that he mingles any of his new heresies with the old one which the seceders had embraced; but community does. They identify the new heresies with anti-slavery, and the anti-slavery cause with Garrison; and we cannot keep them separate in the public mind. This is equivalent to Garrison's identifying them, and, in short, he does identify them, and is guilty of the offence in the estimation of community.No one was more aware of this, or cared less for it, than Mr. Garrison himself:
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organization, and the Transcendental wing of the Unitarian denomination.
As we have said, Mr. Garrison's name was conspicuous by its absence, but in the eyes of the New Organizers and the public at large he was constructively at the bottom of the whole thing.
As the Standard (perhaps through N. P. Rogers) truthfully pointed out, in another connection:
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