"Holograph, signed with initials. William Lloyd Garrison went on a sightseeing tour of Adrian, Michigan, with Dr. Owen and others. He arrived at Hillsdale, where President Fairfield of the local college invited him to stay at his home. Garrison declined the invitation. Garrison lectured to the students. Garrison writes: \"I had a large number of students to hear me at Hillsdale, and spoke two long hours to my dismay when I looked at my watch. But the attention of the audience was fixed and unbroken from beginning to end, and they frequently applauded the sentiments; though my lecture is too serious, as a whole, to make loud applause either proper or desirable.\" Garrison left Hillsdale for La Porte, where he was shown the town and the surrounding countryside from the cupola of the new school. Garrison enjoyed the Indian summer weather. He spoke for two hours to a good audience. He complains of hoarseness and fatigue. Garrison writes: \"How generous and opportune was our friend M. G. Chapman's gift to Fanny!\" Garrison is leaving for Chicago at 11 a.m. Includes a clipping (information artifact) from the Hillsdale Standard regarding William Lloyd Garrison's lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 14th, [1865], in College Chapel, the same lecture that Garrison mentions in his letter dated Nov. 16, 1865. The article has a prediction from Garrison of a \"glorious future for our country---now truly free, and for the disenthralled African who shall now begin to rise in the scale of gradual civilization, and reach that moral and intellectual eminence from which we have so long debarred him.\" The article concludes with these comments about Garrison's lecture: \"His whole production was interspersed with happy illustrations, and permeated with a vein of powerful logic. At times he as quite eloquent and proved himself an earnest advocate of a cause to which he has devoted all his energy and ability.\""
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"Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, La Porte, [Indiana], to Helen Eliza Garrison, Nov. 16, 1865"
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"Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 (Author); Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876 (Addressee)"
