State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-02-23
LIVERPOOL, Janu airy 6, Is;

LIVERPOOL, Janu airy 6, 1886.
WILLIAM L. GARRISON:
My uery Dear Friend,- Il landed on Mon
day the 4th at this port, after 80 days
passage from St. John, New Brunswick.
We had full share of rough weather and
contrary winds, but l enjoyed uninterrupted
health, and find myself much recruited by
the voyage. l desire to render fervent
thanks to that kind and and watchful Being
who has preserved me amidst the perls of
the deep, the dark and bloody schemes of
the foes of freedom in your country, and
has placed me in safety upon my native
shore. / have experienced an affectionate
welcome from the friends here, many of
whom you know. The inquiries after you
are very numerous. There is deep soil
citude felt in your welfare, and many are
the prayers for your enemies, and for the
speedy and complete success ofyour efforts.
! am staying with our excellent friends at
Dingle Bank, who are all well. The Musical
Fund Hall, u specious, and beautiful bull
ding, has been generously offered to me
gratis, for the delivery of as many addresses
as may choose to give, Illustrative of the
state of things on you side of the water.
will endeavor to send your an account of
these, and all subsequent meetings. / am,
as you will readily imagine, very much oc-
cupied, and can therefore do little more
than to inform you Of my safe arrival, and
my anxiety to be Immediately at work for
our common cause.
The letter of Mr.. Gerrit Smith to DR.. A.
L. Cox, has filed me with inexpressibe
delight He has buckled on the armor in
a CAUSE which calls for apostolical boldness
and devotion. May he be divinely sustained
and rendered emnenty useful in the thorny
and arduous path, which, for the present at
least, he will be called to tread
That part of the Presidents Message
which relates to slavery, is pronounced a
disgrace to civilized country.
Governor McDuffie's Speech fills evrey
one by whom it IS perused, with horror and
establishment. If such sentiments were
not found in american type, upon .4merica,,
paper, issued from public and unquestion-
able sources, they would scarcely gain
credit in this country, so widely are they at
variance with every principle of truth and
justice, and so full are they of blasphemous
imputations, and absurd perversons of the
letter and spirit of the Bible. The legisIa
ture of a civilized State--a christian people
and an enlightened world, gravely told by
tile highest executive officer of one of the
Republican States of North America, that
mo human institution is more maniiesty
consistent with the will of God, than domes-
tic slavery" And again, that domestic
slavery, instead of being n political evil
is the corner stone of your republican
edifice!? Surely hell must have given
nine cheers for Governor McDuffie.
The villanies and impieties of the system
are not yet, am convinced, half understood
by the people of Europe. They must be
dragged into the light of the day-where
for while they must excite the loathing
and execration of mankind, and then disap-
pear to give place to the virtues and bles-
sings of better order of things.
l can only add that my heart is with you,
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hear from you. To every one of my dear
friends send through you, my best regards.
Ever most truly,
Your afiectonate friend,