{"id":1140,"date":"2007-05-09T05:59:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/1140"},"modified":"2007-05-09T05:59:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T10:59:13","slug":"garrison-at-plymouth-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/garrison-at-plymouth-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrison at Plymouth Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>August 5, 1859<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the gathering celebrating West India Emancipation, Garrison, in his speech comments on a recent visit to Plymouth.\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230; on going down to the world-famous Rock, I found that it had been excavated, and raised up several feet, preparatory to its being enclosed within an iron railing.\u00a0 They were cutting off a portion of it, in order to make it more symmetrical; but such is the veneration cherished for the Rock, I was told that an officer of the town was standing by, to see that not a single fragment 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