Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4

[219] Garrison described the heroic women of the anti-slavery movement in America, and in extolling Lucretia Mott, the Grimkes, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Child, and Mrs. Chapman, he did not forget to name also the clear-sighted Elizabeth¹ Heyrick of England.

Newcastle-on-Tyne was next visited, and four² delightful days were spent with Mr.Mawson and Mrs. John Mawson and family in their beautiful home at Gateshead. Mr. Mawson presided at the crowded soiree given to Mr. Garrison on the evening of July 9, in the Assembly Rooms at Newcastle, and his voice faltered with emotion as he testified that their guest, after receiving a nation's thanks and obtaining a world-wide renown, was yet ‘the same gentle, loving, earnest, true man he was twenty years ago.’ Not the least interesting and touching feature of the occasion was the presentation of a second welcoming address from the workingmen of the neighboring seaport town of North Shields, to whom, in common with their fellow-toilers of the North of England, Mr. Garrison had just paid a glowing tribute for their steadfast loyalty, in the face of imminent starvation, to the Union cause—‘a spectacle,’ he declared, ‘such as the world has never seen for moral sublimity. . . . Such workingmen and such operatives,’ he continued, ‘are capable of rising to any height, and . . . whatever they do not have now politically as their just claim, ought to be given to them without any delay whatever.’³ The Address was read by Joseph Cowen, Jr., proprietor of the Newcastle Daily Chronicle, and an unfaltering supporter of the North:

To William Lloyd Garrison.

honored Sir: The members of the North Shields Reform⁴ League, embracing the opportunity of your visit to Newcastle