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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

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