"Never before," he records many years afterward, "was I so affected by the speech of man.

When he had ceased speaking I said to those around me: 'That is a providential man; he is a prophet; he will shake our nation to its center, but he will shake slavery out of it.

We ought to know him, we ought to help him.

Come, let us go and give him our hands.' Mr.Sewall and Mr.Alcott went up with me and we introduced each other.

I said to him, 'Mr.Garrison, I am not sure that I can indorse all you have said this evening.