William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist by Archibald H. Grimke
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imperilled the peace and durability of Webster's glorious Union. But one
man, tearing the gag from his lips, defying all these, cried, "Silence, there shall not be!" and forthwith the whole land began to talk on the forbidden theme: "O small beginnings ye are great and strong, Based on a faithful heart and weariless brain! Ye build the future fair, ye conquer wrong. Ye earn the crown, and wear it not in vain!" CHAPTER VI. THE HEAVY WORLD IS MOVED. Archimedes with his lever desired a place to stand that he might move the world of matter. Garrison with his paper, having found a place for his feet, demonstrated speedily his ability to push from its solid base the world of mind. His plan was very simple, viz., to reveal slavery as it then existed in its naked enormity, to the conscience of the North, to be "as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice." And so, week after week, he packed in the columns of the _Liberator_ facts, the most damning facts, against slaveholders, their cruelty and tyranny. He |
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