Garrison, too, was impressed with Douglass, mentioning him in the Liberator. Several days later Douglass gave his speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket-- the speech described at the top of this page.
The abbreviation viz. (or viz without a full stop), short for the Latin videlicet, is used as a synonym for namely, that is to say, to wit, or as follows. It is typically used to introduce examples or further details to illustrate a point.
The phrase 'sic transit' is from the ancient, classical Latin language. Its meaning is the following: Thus it passes over. The word-by-word translation is as follows: 'sic' meâ¦ans 'thus'; and 'transit' means '[It] crosses, goes over, or passes over'.