For he himself was the very reverse of Walker.
Garrison was a full believer in the literal doctrine of non-resistance as enunciated by Jesus.

He abhorred all war, and physical collisions of every description, as wicked and inhuman.

He sang to the slave: "Not by the sword shall your deliverance be; Not by the shedding of your master's blood, Not by rebellion--or foul treachery, Upspringing suddenly, like swelling flood; Revenge and rapine ne'er did bring forth good.
God's _time is best_!--nor will it long delay; Even now your barren cause begins to bud, And glorious shall the fruit be!--watch and pray, For lo! the kindling dawn that ushers in the day." He considered "Walker's Appeal" "a most injudicious publication, yet warranted by the creed of an independent people." He saw in our Fourth-of-July demonstrations, in our glorification of force as an instrument for achieving liberty, a constant incentive to the slaves to go and do likewise.

If it was right for the men of 1776 to rise in rebellion against their mother-country, it surely could not be wrong were the slaves to revolt against their oppressors, and strike for their freedom.

It certainly did not lie in the mouth of a people, who apotheosized force, to condemn them.