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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 12: Kossuth.—1852. (search)
bolition side. He falls in with H. W. Beecher, a leading clergyman—anti-slavery; with Bryant, an eminent W. C. Bryant. poet and editor. Bryant presided and Mr. Beecher said grace at a press dinner given to Kossuth in New York on Dec. 15 (Lib. 21: 206). Kossuth subsequently spoke at Plymouth Church, netting $10,000 for the Hungarian fund (ibid.). See Beecher's humorous invention in the Independent of a clerical committee visiting Kossuth at quarantine, and catechising him as to his views on slavery (Lib. 21.174). How can he escape the idea that we have really taken the matter in hand, and how can he doubt that a nation which must appear to him so young ae of H. W. Beecher himself) he did not create the anti-slavery spirit of the North: he was simply the offspring of it. Lib. 20.203. In connection with this, Mr. Beecher characterized Mr. Garrison as a man of no mean ability; of indefatigable industry; of the most unbounded enterprise and eagerness; of perseverance that pushes h