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Mr. Garrison Mohammad Kasifur Rahman
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1. to in its dark form expanding
2. to giant proportions & threatening to
3. cover the entire continent
4. The other class, I mean Mr. Garrison & his
5. followers, also had their hobby which was
6. succession; which they called the cornerstone
7. of true antislavery. This class was very
8. small compared with the other for
9. there were not a great many people
10. who had any faith in Mr. Garrison’s
11. method of casting out a devil by split-
12. ting the patient in two lengthwise, for one
13. reason, because the devil would live
14. for another, because the patient would
15. die. So Mr. Garrison said Kansas would
16. never be free except through northern
17. succession. Even if we could make it
18. a free state it would be a great injury
19. to their antislavery because it would quiet
20. the northern conscience. Col. J.W. Higgin
21. son (then rev.) was preaching in Worcester.
22. In one of his sermons (printed in full in
23. the Liberator) he said, “what is the use
24. in making Kansas a free state when she
25. will be only another Massachusetts?”
26. Mr. May said in one of the antislavery
27. conventions, “This movement to save
28. Kansas is false in principle. We can
29. take no part in it. The Liberator was
30. always open to any party who wished to