* * * I think I never hated slavery so intensely as at that moment; certainly, my perception of the enormous outrage which is inflicted by it on the godlike nature of its victims, was rendered far more clear than ever.

There stood one in physical proportions and stature commanding and exact--in intellect richly endowed--in natural eloquence a prodigy." [1] It is of interest to compare Mr.Douglass's account of this meeting with Mr.Garrison's.

Of the two, I think the latter the most correct.

It must have been a grand burst of eloquence! The pent up agony, indignation and pathos of an abused and harrowed boyhood and youth, bursting out in all their freshness and overwhelming earnestness! This unique introduction to its great leader, led immediately{10} to the employment of Mr.Douglass as an agent by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

So far as his self-relying and independent character would permit, he became, after the strictest sect, a Garrisonian.