ent to England, as an agent of the New England Anti-slavery
Society, to awaken English sympathy for the anti-slavery movement, and
to undeceive Clarkson and Wilberforce and their distinguished associates
as to the nature and object of the Colonization Society, as to which he
had already had occasion to undeceive himself. His mission was eminently
successful in both its aspects, and resulted in the subsequent visits of
George Thompson to this country, between whom and himself a strong
personal attachment had arisen and has ever since continued. A second
visit to England he made as a delegate to the World's Anti-slavery
Convention, in which he refused to sit after his female colleagues had
been rejected. A third visit, still in behalf of the cause, took place
in 1846. Twenty years later--the war over and Slavery abolished--he
again went abroad, to repair his health and renew old friendships, and
for the first time passed over to the Continent. In England, he was
greeted with cordial appreciation and hospitality by all classes.
Numerous public receptions of a most flattering character were given to
him, but without the effect of causing him to magnify his own merits or
to forget the honor due to his associates in the anti-slavery struggle.
At the London Breakfast, where John Bright presided, and John Stuart
Mill, the Duke of Argyll, and others spoke, he said, when called upon to
reply: "I disclaim, with all the sincerity of my soul, any special
praise for anything I have done. I have simply tried to maintain the
integrity of my soul before God, and to do my duty." In Edinburgh, the
"freedom of the city" was conferred upon him with impressive
ceremonies--he being the third American ever thus honored. In Paris he
was also received with distinction, his special mission to that city
being to attend the International Anti-slavery Convention, in the
capacity of a delegate from the American Freedman's Union Commission, of
which he was first vice-president.

The justice of the war on the part of the North, and its effect on the
fate of Slavery at the South, were never subjects of doubt in the mind
of Mr. Garrison, and he quickly recognized the force of events which had
taken from the abolitionists the helm of direction, and reunited them
with their countrymen in the irresistible flood which no man's hand
guided, and no man's hand could stay. An agitator from conviction and
not from choice, he was only too glad to lay down the heavy