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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 5: shall the Liberator lead—1839. (search)
on. The question of its [slavery's] abolition, the American public was admonished, is the greatest political question now before the people for decision, and resistance to slavery the highest political duty now resting upon every freeman. This doctrine was at least as old as 1830. But in the declaration that the only force which can reach the citadel is the ballot-box, and that the ballot-box is the only peaceful mode of securing abolition, Alvan Stewart wrote to the Emancipator in January, 1840: An independent abolition political party is the only hope for the redemption of the slave (Mass. Abolitionist, 2.1). And this sentiment of Abraham L. Pennock's, of Pennsylvania, What an absurdity is moral action apart from political, was expressly endorsed as his own by Whittier in February, 1841 ([Mass. Abol.] Free American, 3.13). we recognize a new departure, which led directly up to the election of Abraham Lincoln—and to civil war. Nevertheless, the desideratum for a third part