"Fifty years ago, said Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent address on Wendell Phillips, during my college life, I was chosen to debate the question of African colonization, which, just then, was new and fresh. Garrison was just then kindling a brand of fire that never went out until slavery was abolished. Wendell Phillips, a young lawyer, had just entered upon his career. Fortunately, I was assigned to the negative side of the question, and in preparing to speak upon that occasion I prepared my whole life."
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