Garrison, with the instinct of leadership, saw at once the value of the runaway slave's oratorical possibilities in their relations to the anti-slavery movement.

It was at his instance that Collins added Douglass to the band of anti-slavery agents.

The new agent has preserved his recollections of the pioneer's speech on that eventful evening in Nantucket.

Says he: "Mr.Garrison followed me, taking me as his text; and now, whether I had made an eloquent plea in behalf of freedom or not, his was one never to be forgotten.

Those who had heard him oftenest, and had known him longest, were astonished at his masterly effort.