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THOMAS GARRETT. 633
their number as sought their freedom by flight The thousands that passed safely through his hands, on their way to Canada and the North, will never forget his fatherly solicitude for their welfare, or the dangers he unflinchingly encountered in their behalf. Stripped of all his property under the Fugitive Slave law, for giving them food, shelter, and assistance to continue their flight, be knew not what it was to be intimidated or disheartened, but gave himself to the same blessed work as though conscious of no loss. Greathearted philanthropist, what heroism could exceed thy own ?
" For, while the jurist sitting with the slave-whip o'er him Birung, From the tortured truths of freedom the lie of slavery wrung, And the solomn priest to Moloch, OD each God- |