“Over such a scene, Luther and Howard and Clarkson clapped their
    hands.

“Such a speech redeems the long infamy of the State.  It is endurable, the having of such a blot as Delaware in our history, when it has once been the home of such a man.  I remember well the just pride with which he told me, that after that sale, pro-slavery as Wilmington was, he could have a discount at the bank as readily as any man in the city.  Though the laws robbed him, his fellow-citizens could not but respect and trust him, love and honor him.

“The city has never had, we believe, a man die in it worthy of a statue.  We advise it to seize this opportunity to honor itself and perpetuate the good name of its worthiest citizen, by immortalizing some street, spot, shaft or building with his name.

“Brave, generous, high-souled, sturdy, outspoken friend of all that needed aid or sympathy, farewell for these scenes!  In times to come, when friendless men and hated ideas need champions, God grant them as gallant and successful ones as you have been, and may the State you honored grow worthy of you.  WENDELL PHILLIPS.”

Likewise in the “National Standard,” the editor, Aaron M. Powell, who attended the funeral, paid the following glowing tribute to the moral, religious, and anti-slavery character of the slave’s friend: 

On the 24th inst., Thomas Garrett, in his eighty-second year, passed on to the higher life.  A week previous we had visited him in his sick chamber, and, on leaving him felt that he must go hence ere long.  He was the same strong, resolute man in spirit to the last.  He looked forward to the welcome change with perfect serenity and peace of mind.  And well he might, for he had indeed fought the good fight and been faithful unto the end.

He was most widely known for his services to fugitive slaves.  Twenty-five hundred and forty-five he had preserved a record of; and he had assisted somewhat more than two hundred prior to the commencement of the record.  Picture to the mind’s eye this remarkable procession of nearly three thousand men, women and children fleeing from Slavery, and finding in this brave, large-hearted man, a friend equal to their needs in so critical an emergency!  No wonder he was feared by the slave-holders, not alone of his own State, but of the whole South.  If their human chattels once reached his outpost, there was indeed little hope of their reclamation.  The friend and helper of fugitives from Slavery, truly their Moses, he was more than this, he was the discriminating, outspoken, uncompromising opponent of Slavery itself.  He was one of the strongest pillars and one of the most efficient working-members of the American Anti-slavery Society.  He was an abolitionist of the most radical and pronounced character, though a resident of a slave State, and through all the period wherein to be an abolitionist was to