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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 7: first Western tour.—1847. (search)
n Massachusetts, little was needed to maintain the Legislature in its attitude of Lib. 17.14, 74. aversion to the war, or to procure its endorsement of the Proviso; but to disunion it of course turned a cold Lib. 17.58. shoulder. As usual, too, Mr. Garrison's lecture topics embraced religion and peace as well as abolition; and in the philanthropic anniversary month we have a glimpse of him amid kindred spirits. The Rev. Samuel May, Jr., Mr. May—a Unitarian clergyman residing at Leicester, Mass., and universally esteemed and beloved in his own denomination; a cousin of S. J. May, and worthy to be such; a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1829 with Wm. Henry Channing, J. F. Clarke, and other men of national and world-wide reputation—had now become the General Agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (Lib. 17: 94). This position he filled, with the greatest fidelity and self-abnegation, to the close of the anti-slavery struggle, to which no one brought richer gif