William Lloyd Garrison

With his long-time allies deeply divided, however, he was unable to muster the support he needed to carry the resolution, and the motion was defeated 118–48. Garrison went through with his resignation, declining an offer to continue as President, and Wendell Phillips assumed the Presidency of the American Anti-slavery Society. Garrison declared that “My vocation, as an Abolitionist, thank God, has ended.” Returning home to Boston, he told his wife resignedly, “So be it. I regard the whole thing as ridiculous.”

- William Lloyd Garrison article on Wikipedia

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