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William Lloyd Garrison

CHAPTER X
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Others may rest after a labor, may have done one, two, or three distinct tasks, but between Garrison's acts there is no hiatus, each follows each, and is joined to all like links in a chain.

He never closed his eyes, nor folded his arms, but went forward from work to work with the consecutiveness of a law of nature.
But amid labors so strenuous and uninterrupted the leader found opportunity to woo and win "a fair ladye." She was a daughter of a veteran Abolitionist, George Benson, of Brooklyn, Conn., who with his sons George W.and Henry E.Benson, were among the stanchest of the reformer's followers and supporters.

The young wife, before her marriage, was not less devoted to the cause than they.

She was in closest sympathy with her husband's anti-slavery interests and purposes.
Never had husband found wife better fitted to his needs, and the needs of his life work.

So that it might be truly said that Garrison even when he went a-wooing forgot not his cause and that when he took a wife, he made at the same time a grand contribution to its ultimate triumph.
How did Helen Eliza Garrison serve the great cause?
One who knew shall tell.


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