Daily globe., 1879-06-02
VIM. LLOYD GARRISON

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VIM. LLOYD GARRISON
IN INTERESTING COMMEMORATIVE
SERTICE IN UNITY CHURCH.
The Veteran Elizur Wright, One of Garri-
sons Co-Laborers, Visiting st. Pau1--He
Pronounccs a Eulogy Upon His Comrade
IAN Interesting Historical Review--Rev.
VIC. Gannett's Address.
Yesterday morning at Unity church o
commemorative tribute was paid to the
memory of VIM. Lloyd Garrison in appro-
pirate religious exercises, and an address by
the pastor Rev. w. G. Gannett upon the life
and services of the lately deceased philan-
thropist.
The Rev. Mr.. Gannett began his Grafton
as follows:
There is dramatic fitness in the fact that one
and the same week will henceforth hold the
memorial of VIM. Lloyd Garrison's death and
that of the soldiers who died in our great war;
theirs in the thoughts of the people and the
reverent praises of the orators. Not often is it
given to the earliest captain in a half-century's
struggle, the leader of that forlornest hope
whose mission it is to brave friends, not foes,
and sound the first alarms of the struggle at
time when all besides dreaming it is
peace-not often is it given such captain to
outlive the onset upon prejudice, the rebound
ing oblouuy the hurtle of mad words and the
hustle of the mob to outlive this and see pre-
dictions become the handwriting on the wall,
recognized of all, his motoes become the policy
of statesmen and the military necessity of
presidents and the marching orders of great
armies-to outlive even this aud stand among
the survivors of the struggle, the ,eterun Of
them all. and thank God for the peace that is no
more dream. But that was the reward al
lowed to Garrison. L. .-..
Following this, the speaker gave on his
torical account of VIM. Lloyd Garrison's
efforts in behalf of freedom, and the per-
secutions attending him at every step of his
career, until the world was conquered by his
ideas, and the shackles of human beings
were riven. The address repeated from the
historic page of recent date, what was re-
lated below by the lips of him who helped
to make the history, of which Mr.. Gannett
spoke.
ELIzUR WRIGHT.
This helper in the fabrication of our
country's grand and remarkable history was
introduced as Elizur Wright. Elizur Wright,
a co-laborer of William Lloyd Garrison's,
one, who with him took part in the anti
slavery meeting in Philadelphia of 1888 !;
drafted the resolutions adopted by that
convention and enunoiated as their
platform of principles which ultimately tri-
umphed. Mr.. Gannett continued by saying
he considered it happy accident that
brought Mr.. Wright here, and that all would
take pleasure in listening to words of re-
membrance from this friend of Garrison's.
Thereupon Mr.. Wright assembled the steps
of the pulpit and faced his expectant
audience. medium sized man is he, we'll
stricken ana venerable in years, as evinced
by fringe Of snowy white hair about his
head and long pendant whisker bleached
as an arctic winter. He began his remarks
in tremulous voice. weakened alike by age
and emotion, both of which were overcome
as he recalled the past in fervid manner as
he proceeded in his address.
Mr.. VriOht,s ADDRESS.
The address, in substance, was as follows:
If tho human race were not to honor Mr.. Gar
rison it would dishonor itself. Such men as he
only beg in to live wnen they die. Their lives
are LESSONS WHICH, pTluG tuc"eSASeS Ou VIC
hearts of succeeding ages. The world at large did
not at all understand him ut first. 1t mistook him
for fanatic, a visionary. man OF one ldea.
He was man Of genius, a man of many ideas
bat of one object and that the most momen-
tous that could absorb the life of, any man in
his day. It will be impossible for any one OF
the present generation to appreciate Mr. Garri-
son without study of the time in which he
devoted himself to his life-work. A little
more than half a century has rolled away
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the people then in adult life. Men who are
now gray headed were then too young to ap-
preciate the situation and the moral heroism
of the Newburyport type setter who single and
alone set himself against pulpit and press,
forum and senate, and every law or constltu.
tion which upheld or favored human slavery
for single hour. They can never know what
a consolation aud triumph it was to the
few friends ho had stood with him in his
sternest hour of trial, that he
should have been permitted te
live till all this was changed. For plainly
it was to his marvellous persistence in the mora
straight line which he laid out for himself thai
we owe emancipation as result of the slave
holders rebellion. He kindled the fire ano
kept it blazing. And o, what icebergs he die
kindle.
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Why, fifty years ago, it is no exaggeration tt
say, this nation, in church and state, from
President to boot-black-I mean the Whit
boot-black--was thoroughly pro-slavery. Ii
the Sodom there might have been Lot or tw.
here and there-some profound thinker-wh'
wished Justice to be done though the heaven
should fall but he was Respondent. lie dare'
not take step in that direction. by tn
Louisiana purchase slavery had crept up tn
Mississippi to the Missouri, the cotton gin ha
been invented and cotton enthroned as king
When Missouri applied for admission into tn
Union there came the final struggle OF whateve
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and it resulted in asignal defeat of freedom un
der the name of a Compromise" This was i
1920. For the next seven or eight years,
seemed as though nearly the whole business Q
the press the pulpit and the theological sem
nary was to reconcile the people to the perm'
nent degradation and slavery of the negro rac
The church had its negro pew, and caste was
strictly enforced between the African and E'
ropean complexion as it ever was between Ia
iah and Brahmin. Biblical scholars justlhe
the slavery of Hams descendants from tt
bible And what worst of all, the human
ity and philanthropy which could not othe
wise be disposed of, was !ngenlously seouc.
into an African Colonization society, wheret
all slaves who had grown seditious and troub!
some to their masters could be replanted on Il
pestiferous African coast. That this wretc
ed and seemingly transparent humb'
could have deluded anybody must nc
almost pass belief, but mn
deluded by it, And that fact would put I
in doubt Of my own sanity, at the time If
did not know that high statesmen, presiden
of colleges, able editors and that most undoul
ed of firm phiantrophists, Gerret Smi
shared the same delusion. Bible and missit
ary societies tellowshipped that mean a
scurvy device of the kidnapper in their Q,
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