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behind orator and editor, of the goad of the Abolitionist.
In the troubled waters of controversy his was ever the stirring power.
He was not a fly on the wheel, but steam in the engine.
And we can call the best of all witnesses in confirmation of this fact.
President Lincoln, a few days before his assassination, when congratulated by Mr. Chamberlain, afterwards governor of South Carolina, upon having freed the slaves, answered, “I have been only an instrument.
The logic and moral power of Garrison and the anti-slavery people of the country, and the army, have done all.”
Chicago: the Public Publishing Company, 1905.
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