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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 411

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    numbersand speaking throug , h many pul pits and ten or twelve , are wont to name William Lloyd Garrison as the

    re presses ioneer presentative , the of movemen their movement tand tlie . Mr heroic . Garrison steadfastness is indeed with the

    which p he has followed the , cause he was the first to proclaim in that country—going where it wentloding where it lodged

    , g deserves ( which was well , at the two cordial differen admiration t periods , of within his followers prison walls . But )—

    A slavery fricans in whose America has exci had ted a Mr wider . Garrison bearing ' s benevolen than upon t emo the

    tions ; it , involves wrongs also the struggle between the human soul hear and t swhich world , from the inwar to d triump must hs or choose failures between of innumerable the cause

    of the , strong and that age of the age weak , between the world and its golden prize and the right with its crown of in thorns the work . And before we

    us are , no warran less t than ed , by by many the well thrilling -known undertones facts of the case , in recognizing Wendell Phillias—bhis experience and "by his

    genius—the representative ps man y of the American anti-slavery movement .

    - first even Here dis as tinguished of was the a hi young ghes resence t man order and , , of th tli g e ift most s the recognized pride prepossessing of the from hihes and the t

    t ac ircle t wi o th f socie the ty obscur in p B os men ton , a circle person women which , w had ho me no t point in of g con in - groves

    the summer and in fourth-rate halls in winter to discuss the wrongs of the slave , born to wealth and the highest university

    education , a brilliant lawyer , welcomed in all the courts , whose be path fore , to hi m s t t raig words ht to the f his presidential early friends chair , . " lay On mapped a certain out in Illinois

    day there came tidings to Boston that a certain editor , articl named e Loyej ainst oy slavery , had been and slai attac n k in his by own a mob house for . writing A meeting an "

    is called ag at the Old Court , -room ( Faneuil Hall , known in Boston revolution as the cradle having of been liberty refused , " from ) to its consider association the matter with the . first The

    meeting has , no distinct purpose , and it is hard to say whether

    Notices Of Books. 411

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 411

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/51/