'But,' I said, 'although it is not true that England has any _white_ slaves, either at home or abroad, is it not true that there are thousands of her population, both at home and abroad, who are deprived of their just rights, who are grievously oppressed, who are dying even in the midst of abundance, of actual starvation?
YES!' and I expressly called upon British Abolitionists to prove themselves the true friends of suffering humanity abroad, by showing that they were the best friend of suffering humanity at home." Truth, justice, duty, always overrode with him the proprieties, however sacredly esteemed by others.
Of a piece with this fact of the placard of the _white slave_ was his custom in refusing the wine proffered by some of his British friends to their guests.

He was not content with a simple refusal and the implied rebuke which it involved, he must needs couple his declaration with an express rebuke to host and hostess for tempting men into the downward way to drunkenness.
While in attendance upon the sessions of the World's Convention Garrison received tidings, of the birth of his third child.

The second, whom he named for himself, was born in 1838.

The third, who was also a son, the fond father named after Wendell Phillips.

Three children and a wife did not tend to a solution of the always difficult problem of family maintenance.