omising opponent of Slavery
itself. He was one of the strongest pillars and one of the most
efficient working-members of the American Anti-slavery Society.
He was an abolitionist of the most radical and pronounced
character, though a resident of a slave State, and through all
the period wherein to be an abolitionist was to put in jeopardy,
not only reputation and property, but life itself. Though he
rarely addressed public meetings, his presence imparted much
strength to others, was "weighty" in the best Quaker sense. He
was of the rare type of character, represented by Francis
Jackson and James Mott.

Thomas Garrett was a member of the Society of Friends, and as
such, served by the striking contrast of his own life and
character, with the average of the Society, to exemplify to the
world the real, genuine Quakerism. It is not at all to the
credit of his fellow-members, that it must be said of them, that
when he was bearing the cross and doing the work for which he is
now so universally honored, they, many of them, were not only
not in sympathy with him, but would undoubtedly, if they had had
the requisite vitality and courage, have cut him off from their
denominational fellowship. He was a sincere, earnest believer in
the cardinal point of Quakerism, the Divine presence in the
human soul--this furnishes the key to his action through life.
This divine attribute he regarded not as the birth-right of
Friends alone, not of one race, sex or class, but of all
mankind. Therefore was he an abolitionist; therefore was he
interested in the cause of the Indians; therefore was he
enlisted in the cause of equal rights for women; therefore was
he a friend of temperance, of oppressed and needy working-men
and women, world-wide in the scope of his philanthropic
sympathy, and broadly catholic, and comprehensive in his views
of religious life and duty. He was the soul of honor in
business. His experience, when deprived at sixty, of every
dollar of his property for having obeyed God rather than man, in
assisting fugitives from Slavery, and the promptness with which
his friends came forward with proffered co-operation, furnishes
a lesson which all should ponder well. He had little respect
for, or patience with shams of any kind, in religious, political
or social life.

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