The loyal Georgian., 1866-03-17
BEECHER'S TRIBUTE TO
GARRISON.

" AZ 49, ~ -
GA Sunday morning last, Mr.. Beech
err, in giving notice of Mr.. Garrison's
lecture, delivered at the Academy of
Music in Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening
said:
L greatly regret that absence from
town on that evening viii prevent my
joining with you in paying token of
public respect and honor to this one of
the few distinguished Americans. | am
better fitted than his more immediate
adherents to speak Cf Mr.. GarrisOni
because [ have never been cf his party,
nor stood upon his platform. 1t has
been diffe ence, however, of measures
aud not of ends | have always been in
the strongest sympathy with him in re-
gard to the evils and dangers OF, Ameri-
can elavery The methods by which be
propc sed TO break the power OF it never
seemed to me to be wise, aud, therefore,
never could pursue, except in general
way, cooperative labor with him. | am
not, therefore, blinded by party feeling
when | say that Mr.. Garrison IS Que OF
the few men in this generation that will
not die; whose name will go upon the
page of history unsullied. For, NOR
and more, it will appear that the euo
and aim aud effect of his whole life has
been to work out that most glorious fruit,
Christian Liberty to all And all mis-
takes of Judgment, all mistakes of i'll
struments, will be thought of less and
less; while the great victory which he,
as much as any other one man, has con-
tributed to produce, will give the measure
and the proportion to his rnpu'ation-aHd
men viii say, The mistakes were human,
but this conservation of a life, heroically,
to SO grand an object, is divine. GOO
lnspir ed that III him.
Through good report and through
evil report, for some forty years, he has
suffered his name to be cast QUITO be
trodden under foot OF men He has
suffered every ind'gnify that a man
could we'll suffer He has walked with
out wealth and without honor although
by the powers of his mind, be was fitted
| to rise to any sphere of life in which he
ualght choose to walk. He gave himself
Tor the or He was voice to those
that coulu not speak he was defeuse to
those that were defenseless he was eyes
to those thai were blind. He gave bim~
self to be a brother to those that were
without house, without name, and
| without kindred. And on his head may
Goods blessing rest to the last hour of
his life. | honor him, aud [ love him !;
and not the less because of that exceed.
mg greatness of good sense which LED
Nun TO 300 at once when the Constitution
was amended Uhat slavery n"D draa, aud
that his past lie was ended. He laid
down his paper; he laid aside his weap
ons; he put away all the enginery Of the
old war, and turned himself like an
humble man without name-tO the
great work of educating the poor, aud
taking care of the newl y>emarcipated
slave. | feel, you feel, and all ought to
feel, that her" is man whose shoes
atchet We are not worthy to unloose
And the least that we Can do is, not to
wait till he is dead and then pronounce
cnlogies upon him, but to show him, while
he is yet alive and amongst us, that we
honor him. And | should like it if that
Academy of Music was so crowded by us
that nobody else could get in. | do not
ask you to go because l think he will
give YOU fowery and rhetorical treat !;
but that you may be able to express your
feelings Of respect aud your houoring re-
gard to one that has added star to the
galaxy Of American honored names -
independent.