An All-Absorbing Purpose—An Iron Will
An All-absorbing Purpose—an Iron Will.—December 10, one hundred years ago, William Lloyd Garrison was born. January 1, 1831, he began the issue of his radical anti-slavery sheet. In his salutatory he uttered these words: I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think or speak or write with moderation. . . . I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard. The friends of the "lost cause," our Southern brethren, may cherish no pleasant memories of the man who, tho meek himself, could write so intemperately, yet all will admire the courage, the bravery. It is such a spirit as that which is needed in God's cause, not in harshness nor vindictiveness, but in zeal, in courage, in persistence.