In the temper of bold and clear-eyed leadership he wrote George W.Benson, his future brother-in-law, "we may as well, first as last, meet this proscriptive spirit, _and conquer it_.

We--_i.e._, all the friends of the cause--must make this a common concern.

The New Haven excitement has furnished a bad precedent--a second must not be given or I know not what we can do to raise up the colored population in a manner which their intellectual and moral necessities demand.

In Boston we are all excited at the Canterbury affair.

Colonizationists are rejoicing and Abolitionists looking sternly." Like a true general Garrison took in from his _Liberator_ outlook the entire field of the struggle.