Reading Garrison's Letters

March 1, 1843

“The subject of capital punishment, within a few months past. has been widely discussed in the land, and is fast increasing in public interest. ”   Garrison makes clear his position in opposition.

“… the intermarriage law has passed through both houses of our Legislature, and only needs the Governor’s signature (which will undoubtedly be affixed to it) to be complete.  Thus has another tremendous blow been given to the monster prejudice. We have not been equally successful in regard to the rail-road question and shall therefore ‘try again’.  Never were the aspects of the anti-slavery cause so auspicious as at the present time.  In this Commonwealth abolitionism is now scarcely able to find one public opponent.  ¹

¹ Letters of William Lloyd Garrison – Volumes I – VI