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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
avery Society. A most competent judge shall testify to the weight of his remarks on this occasion, in the following letter (a translation by the hand of the recipient): Nicholas Tourgueneff A kinsman of the celebrated novelist; an exile on the false charge of connection with the December conspiracy on the accession of Nicholas to the throne in 1825, but equally obnoxious to that despot because of his antislavery views and action; author of La Russie et les Russes (including the Memoires d'un Proscrit) and Un Dernier Mot sur laEmancipation des Serfs en Russie. He was an ardent admirer of Baron Stein, whom he accompanied as attache on the invasion of France by the Allies in 1813. Tourgueneff rightly held that emancipation in Russia would come about not from below but from above—that is, from the Czar; and happily he lived to see the great consummation. to Mrs. M. W. Chapman. Paris, September 29, 1855. Liberty Bell for 1856, p. 100; Lib. 26.60. Madame: Seeing you on t