THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



MEETINGS IN THE CAUSE OF ABOLITION 



OF SLAVERY WERE HELD IN THIS GROVE 



YEARLY FROM 1846 TO 1865. ON THIS SPOT 



WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, 



WENDELL PHILLIPS, EDMUND QUINCY, 



THEO. PARKER, FRANCIS JACKSON, 



PARKER PILLSBURY, GEORGE THOMPSON, 



ABBY KELLY FOSTER, LUCY STONE 



AND OTHERS ADDRESSED THE PEOPLE. 



SUFFERING ALL MANNER OF ABUSE 



THE ABOLITIONISTS STOOD STEADFAST UNTIL 



THE SLAVE WAS MADE FREE 



Reader take heed, stand for the right, 



though power and wealth and all your 



Jellows turn against you and persecute you. 



I am in earnest — / will not equivocate 

 I will not excuse — / will not retreat 

 A siy^gle inch — and I will be beard. 



Garrison 



ERECTED BY AN ABINGTON SOLDIER 



WHO SERVED AND WAS WOUNDED 



IN THE WAR WHICH ENDED SLAVERY 



The Abington soldier who presented this 

 memorial to the town was Moses N. Arnold. 

 Among the invited guests who were present 

 and participated in the exercises were: 

 Judges Robert O. Harris and G. W. Kelley, 

 Hon. A. E. Pillsbury, Francis Garrison, Wm. 

 Lloyd Garrison, (Mrs.) Helen B. Coggeshall 

 and Henry B. Blackwell. 



To the abolitionists belongs the distinction 

 of rendering the grove historic. In addition, 



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