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cause of justice, humanity, and freedom seems
to become dearer to us, as we link with it
the memory of such faithful and disinterested
lovers. God be thanked for the great consola-
tion we have in their death. They 'fought a
good fight, and kept the faith.'
" We regret the absence of Mr. Garrison,
who would gladly have used this opportunity
to testify to the sincere and upright life of
his friend, and to the value of his long and
never-wavering services to the anti-slavery
cause. Instead of this, we are fortunate in
being able to give the words of one who knew
Mr. Whiting intimately, and who, in writing to
Mr. Garrison, speaks as follows :--
"' I hardly know how to do justice to the
peculiar respect and tenderness with which
Col. Whiting always spoke of you. Your por-
trait hung over his couch in his sickness, and
after death. He talked about you frequently;
and I have often heard him say, " If there is a
man on earth I truly love, it is William Lloyd
Garrison." His disease (of the heart) had ren-
dered it absolutely necessary to keep him, for