ng, he again
amassed a handsome competence, generously contributing all the
while to every work in behalf of the down-trodden blacks or his
suffering fellow-men of any color.

In time the war came, and as he remarked, the nation went into
the business by the wholesale, so he quit his retail operations,
having, after he commenced to keep a record, helped off over
twenty-one hundred slaves, and no inconsiderable number before
that time.

In time, too, he came to be honored instead of execrated for his
noble efforts. Wilmington became an abolition city, and for
once, at least, a prophet was not without honor in his own city.
Mr. Garrett continued his interest in every reform up to his
last illness, and probably his last appearance in any public
capacity, was as president of a Woman Suffrage meeting, in the
City Hall, a few months ago, which was addressed by Julia Ward
Howe, Lucy Stone, and Henry B. Blackwell.

He lived to see the realization of his hopes for Universal
Freedom, and in April last on the occasion of the great parade
of the colored people in this city, he was carried through our
streets in an open barouche, surrounded by the men in whose
behalf he had labored so faithfully, and the guards around his
carriage carrying banners, with the inscription, "Our Moses."

A Moses he was to their race; but unto him it was given to enter
into the promised land toward which he had set his face
persistently and almost alone for more than half a century.

He was beloved almost to adoration by his dusky-hued friends,
and in the dark days of the beginning of the war, which every
Wilmingtonian will remember with a shudder, in those days of
doubt, confusion, and suspicion, without his knowledge or
consent, Thomas Garrett's house was constantly surrounded and
watched by faithful black men, resolved that, come weal come woe
to them, no harm should come to the benefactor of their race.

He was a hero in a life-time fight, an upright, honest man in
his dealings with men, a tender husband, a loving father, and
above all, a man who loved his neighbor as himself, and
righteousness and truth better than ease, safety, or worldly
goods, and who never let any fear of harm to person or property
sway him from doing his whole duty to the uttermost.

He was faithful among the faithl