[William Lloyd Garrison by Archibald H. Grimke]@TWC D-Link bookWilliam Lloyd Garrison CHAPTER IX 5/31
"I am more and more impressed;" he wrote a friend a few weeks later, "I am more and more impressed with the importance of 'working whilst the day lasts.' If 'we all do fade as a leaf,' if we are 'as the sparks that fly upward,' if the billows of time are swiftly removing the sandy foundation of our life, what we intend to do for the captive, and for our country, and for the subjugation of a hostile world, must be done quickly.
Happily 'our light afflictions are but for a moment.'" This yearning of the leader for increased activity in the cause of immediate emancipation was shared by friends and disciples in different portions of the country.
Few and scattered as were the Abolitionists, they so much the more needed to band together for the great conflict with a powerful and organized evil.
This evil was organized on a national scale, the forces of righteousness which were rising against it, if they were ever to overcome it and rid the land of it, had needs to be organized on a national scale also.
Garrison with the instinct of a great reformer early perceived the immense utility of a national anti-slavery organization for mobilizing the whole available Abolition sentiment of the free States in a moral agitation of national and tremendous proportions. He had not long to wait after his return from England before this desire of his soul was satisfied.
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