10/27 We need some new party--" Again the other raised a warning hand. "_Do not say that word_! Others have principles as much as you and I. Let us not speak with recklessness of consequences. But, privately, and without hot argument, my dear friend, the singular thing to me is that you, an old leader of the people, with a wide following in the North and South, should now be entertaining precisely the same principles-- though not expressing them with the same reckless fervor--which are advanced by the latest and most dangerous abolitionist of the time." "You do not mean Mr.Garrison? You could perhaps guess her name." The other drew his chair closer. |