Garrison does not want “to be eaten”
Aug 28, 1837
Responding to public criticism, Garrison refers to an abolitionist who says that he never ‘swallowed William Lloyd Garrison, and I never tried to swallow him’. Garrison responds: “For myself, I feel within me the instinct of self-preservation too strongly to be willing to allow either man or beast to swallow me, either in a figuratrive or literal sense. I desire to remain uneaten; my earnest entreaty is, that no man will think of making a meal of me, either in the gross, or in choice proportions….” 1