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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOL. IV.

WM. LLOYD GARRISON, at the age of 69.

Frontispiece.

Photogravure from a photograph by Rockwood, New York,
taken in 1874.

STEPHEN SYMONDS FOSTER, at about the age of 60...to face p. 30

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The final resolve of the South to have no Union with non-

slaveholding States creates a Union-saving panic in the

North, and secures Republican assent in Congress to the

most abject conditions of a restoration of the status quo by

Constitutional amendment, with explicit guarantees for the

perpetuity of slavery. Concurrently, mob violence against

the abolitionists breaks out afresh, with Wendell Phillips

for its chief object in Boston. Garrison employs his pen

actively against the compromising cowardice of Seward and

other Republican leaders. He sides with the Federal Gov-

ernment as against the Constitutional pretences of the seces-

sionists, but would seize the opportunity for a peaceable

separation. He reviews President Lincoln's inaugural ad-

dress with anti-slavery fidelity. The attack on Sumter

breaks the spell that has bound the North, and Garrison

lends his full weight to the wave of public feeling which

resists the overthrow of the Union. He counsels a tem-

porary self-effacement of the abolitionists, and omits the

anniversary meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

He defends his consistency as a non-resistant and (for the

benefit of his English friends) as an abolitionist in his sup-

port of the Government at this crisis. Nevertheless, he

censures the President's revocation of a military edict of

emancipation, and his wishy-washy message to Congress in

December. He draws up a memorial to that body, praying

for an abolition enactment with compensation to loyal slave-

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extinction of slavery. He proceeds to Baltimore, and finds
the jail in which he was confined in 1830 demolished; visits
Washington for the first time, and is heartily received by
the President, and very courteously in the Senate Chamber.
In a controversy with Professor F. W. Newman of London,
he defends the renomination of Lincoln, whose reëlection
presently crowns the repeal by Congress of the Fugitive
Slave Law, and the abolition of slavery by Maryland.

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