The sub-committee in turn deputed Garrison to do the business.
Mr.May has told in his _Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict_, how he and Whittier left their friend at ten o'clock in the evening, agreeing to call at eight the following morning and how on their return at the appointed hour they found Garrison with shutters closed and lamps burning, penning the last paragraph of the admirable document.

He has told how they three read it over together two or three times, making some slight alterations in it, and how at nine o'clock the draft was laid by them before the whole committee.

The author of the recollections has left a graphic account of its effect upon the convention.

"Never in my life," he says, "have I seen a deeper impression made by words than was made by that admirable document upon all who were present.

After the voice of the reader had ceased there was silence for several minutes.
Our hearts were in perfect unison.