burden of a
life-time, and retire to well-earned repose, after such a vision of
faint hope realized as certainly no other reformer was ever blessed
with. He had lived to see the disunion which he advocated on sacred
principles, attempted by the South in the name of the sum of all
villanies; the uprising of the North; the grand career of Lincoln; the
proclamation of emancipation; the arming of the blacks--his own son
among their officers; the end of the rebellion; and the consummation of
his prayers and labors for the salvation of his country. He had taken
part in the ceremonies at the recovery of Sumter, had walked the streets
of Charleston, and received floral tokens of the gratitude of the
emancipated. To him it seemed as if his work was done, and that he
might, without suspicion or accusation, cease to be conspicuous, or to
occupy the public attention in any way relating to the past and
recalling his part in the anti-slavery struggle. Notoriety, no longer a
necessity, was eagerly avoided; and the physical rest which was now
enjoined upon him the liberality of his friends having enabled him to
secure, he settled down into the quiet life of a private citizen, whose
great duty had become to him merely one of the duties which every man
owes his country and his race. His sweet temper, his modesty, his
unfailing cheerfulness, his rarely mistaken judgment of men and
measures; his blameless and happy domestic life, and his hospitality;
his warm sympathy with all forms of human suffering--these and other
qualities which cannot be enumerated here, will doubtless receive the
just judgment of posterity.

As a fitting adjunct to the foregoing sketch, extracts from some of the
speeches made at the London breakfast so magnanimously extended to Mr.
Garrison in 1867, are here introduced. As presiding officer on the
occasion, John Bright, M.P. spoke as follows:

SPEECH OF MR. BRIGHT, M.P.

The position in which I am placed this morning is one very
unusual for me, and one that I find somewhat difficult; but I
consider it a signal distinction to be permitted to take a
prominent part in the proceedings of this day, which are
intended to commemorate one of the greatest of the great
triumphs of freedom, and to do honor to a most eminent
instrument in the achievement of that freedom. (Hear, hear.)
There may be, perhaps, those who ask what is this triumph of
which I speak? To put it briefly, a