The Portland daily press., 1867-02-18
Testimonial TO IIr. Garrison.

1t will be remembered that the proposition
was made some months since, in considera-
ton OF Mr.. Garrison's long and faithful ser
vice to the cause of equal rights, service
wholly unremunerated since his newspaper
has never afforded him a support, in consider
alton also Of his declining health and the pro-
longed illness of Mrs. Garrison, to offer him
national testimonial to be provided by the
subscriptions of those Americans who feel
that the country owes him a debt of graft
tude and desire to pay the first instalment
now. The first report Of the committee hay
ing this matter in charge has been made pub
lie as follows: ..l.
The executive committee OF the national
testimonial to William Lloyd Garrison have
received numerous inquiries as to the condi-
tiOn and prospects of the understanding, and
are happy to be able to assure its friends that
both are satisfactory. They have repeatedly
suspended their work, at times when great
public interests and claims were especially de-
manding attention, SO that it has made less
progress than it would have done under other
circumstances.
The committee feel that the time has come
when the subscriptions already made to the
testimonial should be published, so that all
| interested therein may know what has been
done and what remains to be done and that
those who have not yet learned of the under
| taking and who desire to testify their respect
| for life of singular and unselish conservation
to the nOblest object, may have now the op-
| portunity of contributing such sums as best
suit their own convenience, the largest and
the smallest being alike welcome and impor-
! tant to this National Testimonial -.
The list below is necessarily imperfect as
very many friends OF the measure. i'm all parts
of the country, who are i'm communication
with The executive committee, have not vet
made their report. The committee hope soon
to receive these, but will delay this publica-
ton no longer. All future contributions will
be duly acknowledged, from time to time. in
the Boston Daily Advertiser.
Governor Bullock of Massachusetts,, in send.
ing to the committee his contribution. after
alluding to the public grants and private hen.
| etactiOns often made, in other countries in
recognition of great public and patriotic ser
vices, says: "But here is a man who has Mac.
"ed humanity and history under lust tribute
"And why shOnld it not be rendered to him
"ali unsought as it is on his part,-whiIe hi,
"life endures on the earth h?D .'-
The committee hope to receive, without do
lay, the names and donations OF the friends O
TINS testmonlal IN every part OF the country
nIoe ono1Iu po seht 10 our Secretary ant
a 6ss,stailI" "a nn leasufef, Rev. Samuel May, jr.
+. y. Box 36O5, Boston, Mass. si.u
| JOHN A. ANDREW,
a3i ita j. l. BowDITCH, ..
t VIM. +. COFFIN,
SAMUEL 4. SEwALL, u
THOMAS RUSSELL,
WILLIAM ENDICoTT, JR.,
ROBERT G. WATERsToN,
EDMUND QUINCY,
Committee.
Here fellow the subscriptions, ranging al
the way from so cents to $500, and maxim.
three columns of the Boston Advertiser
Among the contributors are Gerritt Smith
Charles Sumner, James Speed, Henry Wilson
John A. Andrew, Alex. 81. Bullock, Samue
May, Josiah Quincy, Ticknor & Fields, Mrs
Stowe, R. H. Dana, jr., James Redpath, A.
J Dana, and others. Voluntary contribution