The committee of twenty, now nineteen since his departure, slumbered and slept in the land of benevolent intentions, a practical illustration of Lundy's pungent saying, that "philanthropists are the slowest creatures breathing.

They think forty times before they act." The committee never acted, but its one member in Vermont did act, and that promptly and powerfully as shall shortly appear.

Garrison had gone to Bennington to edit the _Journal of the Times_ in the interest of the reelection of John Quincy Adams to the Presidency.

For this object he was engaged as editor of the paper.

What he was engaged to do he performed faithfully and ably, but along with his fulfillment of his contract with the friends of Mr.Adams, he carried the one which he had made with humanity likewise.