New-York tribune., 1883-11-04
GARRISON AND BACON.
.,prrrR FROM EX-GOVERNOR D. II. CHAM
- BERLAIN.

o,nry pryFNpKD AGAINST THE ATTACK of mH'
LEONARD wooLsEY BACON.
n. an. Fdftor Of The Trtoane
- s,n. In The Century magazine for March last ap-
,,aorod an article by the Rev. Leonard Woolsey Da
sor entitled "A Good Fight Finished "a triouteoi
Io1,ng filial admiration to noble fatner, aoy WIN
tan strongly phrased, vigorous and outspoke1 40
bocame the theme. read the article IN LonuOu |
srLera Ss I was then pausing on my way home from
,eay,s search for health. DR.. Leonard Bacon ""s
.,,on S of whom saw much and knew more VINO nou
oroa mo with some portion, certainly, oil ms
.n;D ond confidence as he often seemed gi"d 80;
Att in the days when might well put sum
monies above all the ISLANDERS OF pohuo riors
or the covardly, whispered douotS anu
of half-hearted friends man. tender
DIR Bacon was undoubtedly ki' aoio,s fear-
,,,a trne in all personal relations; ~ 7. ,vos
Ioss opd ,nasterful in all pubic reiS i,st
,,, fortune To see most OF him IN '"o LII We
rscad,ng and at the opening Oh 'no 4foro aud
uo was n yeritabe Knight Oh 'no "a NIL.
- have heard many great orators anu PS
tulpi" 49, I,ecall passages of eloquence' iol'S
Hc sP''iHI, toins of denunciation ana saic"Sn'
anu :, -tb a glowing, feryid spirIluaiiS VI 'o"o,
,i,' .rl, him always in my memory as ono "
', NJ Sarooat of what may well enough can
.i", oro,ors For the writer IN me |o"'" y -
.,aI;opt son of a valiant sIe-A ha'0 -
tno ~ ,ribute to which ] now reior is III E0n
P,;ts worthy of the subject ana inc "li'ol' ~
.-'. &c Ill that he should eulog'ze MS i"Snoi
-. no iudred to be his best work anu De'O ~.
49, 90 with him heartily in nearly al n0 w.
hut when he unnecessarily leaves nlS 'noHo 80
soil another great name. one may p""aS ,vbile
assent and grsvely challenge DIS poSi,'y pS Eminent
conceding all that is due 10 30 Oi"''
. nnblic character as Dr. Bacon r,.,. o++oc,,
10 Ia, W..
c',nrioo, and his pointed explicit oeiiI,i "
uPO" up, - NON of any share in the Ieino'"i "
I raad these charges WIN
,l .rrorc 70 nv pen, but the time anu p"I'
MY "''s si,,,-oniant Besides" SAID 10 mySeii'
go ,,o wait to see what response su'h .'sS.
is' fror, othersn / do not forget Tue No'S
win ,ottors on this topic by Mr.. Oliver Johnson
TD1puxE but it has not left my m'nu tn"'
- I.ao bo6 something to say. MI Bacon SECS III -
write:
,...u,o1,v matter of interest TO public morals
IL 10 - ;'lrssnuous youth of America snoulu NUN
tbs truth Of this matter,-tnat MI, that
me- lno never succeeded IN any - =, ~
eoc.G Ghjstrv with which he spent nl9tiihe ~ r..
!e @ 90 cnnfdse plain distinctions nan mus y, tb de-
fng y. 20 giye acrimouy and pausO " w ~
except 70 gIn1 erv and that the final extinction OF
@ was accom- plished in pursuance o. he de-
S;c5 he abhOrred, by measures "ni0" N
nounced.
.oo have m interest in historic trutn' anu
,,.4ha iroenuous youth of America" lIhhN' Ni''
A. Racon. that 1t Is really matter OF interest ~
III ,norals - that the truth shOuid oe kuo"H
- only "a 10 that great movement pG' aS ~ w
e-root actors in it. l propose therefore, 70 Wy ~
gre"' taat, " "irgenuous youth" well as all
IT. ,cbo may read that the whole worlu mas no
ovno'S mo in ascribing to Mr.. Garrison tar
- 80 ocsncy than to any other one man III Une
e,,,a,.ol of American slavery. And propose 10 uo
- ~, by attacking Dr. Leouard Bacons mem
orv Int by vindicaung Mr.. GarrlsohS'
THE ONE GROUND OF OFFENCE.
No.. s,soifes but one ground in support OF
navreening general charge which have quoIen
w I of ma look at that. Omtting all the
49,. sc iuveotiye with which Mr. Bacon nitro
49, "a clothes his charge, let us see what Is lts
sohst,pce, It is this only that Dir. GARRISON an'
"rbe Ant-slavery party"-mark the uhconSc'ouSCo
60, m these words. " the Anti-slaVerS party ="
.hosition Of Mr. Garrison and his associates a. 'n
- ,bo raallv fought slavery-declarou aS VIel
t.oh,r,ct,ristic 9. TENET; slayeholdng always anu
sor.,ybere n sin" confess feel some SENSE U
s,oo,s,,opt not 10 say humiliation, that son o
Dr Leonard Bacon should formulate suca Guar :
1Inor spch basis Mr.. Bacon describes MI uarl'so'
and the Anti-slavery party as oeIue eoU -
~ Rocon 'between the jaws OF dehhtioh an
IL ,.,ohoap ~ and then as being at once out
81,
tocoors,v angry; and as then resorting to what d
80, 90 regard as a subterfuge, If not somethn
80 a., formally resolving that by slavehola
.r,ho Ant1.slavery Society understands the holu
80 "a traating OF human beings as property
Nr Racon then quotes passage from DI' Leohdl'
pocon in which. by many ferns Oh words ahu WIZ
oraot yehemence, to put 1t mildly ne repuuia' y
I'd denies this definition OF the Anti-slaVer.
Dortv bntin which he nowhere tells us wha' Is Ut
IN
mr Racon's) definition" What, theu' am IN
U,ad tn ask. is this definition whlch plncneu
Nr Garrison and his cOadjutOrs SO severely, "n
mod them so outrageously angry Dr' D"oo
docs NOT give it. His valiant son does hot give II
VIII then. is itP ask. Aud want MI Baco
80 little of his leisure, and give us this de'
milton" -. c.,,, gor,
ooncral remarks he makes in the course OF his art
81. b,t a definition is nothing if not express an
.~o.t II cannot pinch" much less "plnch
ore unless the pinehee sees 1t, unless 1t erps al
consciously and uuavoidably. Possibly one ma
beco,ne outrageously angry at nothing! thln
raw men often do; but am at loss fully 10 III
darsfand the qualities or terms OF this undehne
"de6nition" which "pinched severely the Ant
slavery party
AR. GAGRIsoN's DEFINITION" ANALYzED
10, 20 te entirely serious infer from some qui
-oc,,e remarks of Mr. Bacon that the offence OF M
C,orrison and his followers was that their chara
..rss+ic tenet ~ slaveholding always and ever
.rbo,e a ain Included the legal guardian of
Sscranit negro" or " one holding family OF slav
;n transit for free State with intent to emancipa
them To be entirely fair. then to Mr. Bacon
we'll "a to DR.. Bacon, If indeed the latter is co
rsetly represented by the former, they would no
tbat the man who acted as the legal guardian
= 1ecr,nit slave" or who held family of slave
In transit for free State with intent to emanclpa
tbem.o was STAKEHOLDER. So he was precise
in the same sense and no other to Il same e1ten
and no other, that the man VINO Stays ano'ner
soIf-dofance or by msadventure is a murdert
Tn narrow legal meaning of the term, they we
sIavebolders. and in 10 other. They were not log