The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-04-22

Emancipation" Garrison publishes the name
Of Francis Todd ip very large capitals-states
the facts-calls the offence piracy, and says Of
all who participate, they "should be sentenced
to the State prison for life-they are enemies
Of their own species, highway robbers and muir
derers; and their final doom will be, unless they
speedily repent, to occupy the lowest depths Of
perdition." Here is light and Iove, with ven
geance. At the close of this TRADE, which the
court and jury decided to be q false and mali
clous libel, Garrison says that he shall send
Todd copy, and requests the editor Of the
Newburyport Herald to publish the article-no
doubt for the benefit of Todd's wife and chill
dren.
Mr.. Todd certainly received notice, of which
fact Garrison was soon apprized by indictment
and civil suit. Of this Garrison complained
''lnstead of indicating his conduct in the
civil action, }" SC. The columns of the Genius!
What BOBBY Of a Todd he must. have been, to
come all the way from Newburyport for regu-
lar set-to of light and lore with Garrison on his
own d,nghiH!
Garrison was found guilty, and fined fifty
dollars and costs. in the criminal prosecution
"Mr. Todd" says Garrison, ''as high-minded
man, should have been satisfied with the result
Of the former trial" A high minded man |!
What Todd, the pirate and murderer?
In the civil suit Mr.. Todd recovered one
thousand dollars damages. Garrison was seven
weeks in the common jail, at Baltimore; from
which he was finally relieved by Peters angel,
who, for the occasion, assumed the form of Ar
thur Tappan. He processes great obligation to
Mr.. Tappan--it is difficult to say for what.
He appears to have been highly pleased with
the Jail. eff" says he, "there be any occur
renee In my life from which draw sweet con-
ISOLATION, and of which am truly proud, it is
my imprisonment at BALTIMORE - Sin
deed, was in danger Of being lifted up, even
in prison, by excessive panegyric and extraor-
binary sympathy" Pouf&felow! This en-
dangerment of his constitutional humility must
have been severe trial for him.
II is of little importance to contemplate the
absurd Inconsistencies of this nondescript re-
former, who mingles non-resistance with wrath
and denunciation, and light and love with false
and malicious libels; and who, after fair and
deliberate trial and righteous conviction, by
impartial men, damns the jury to everlasting
fame. We have shown the comparatively mild
and temperate doctrines advanced, and the
christian, lawful, and constitutional modus OPP
erand proposed by the primitive abolitionists,
even as late as 1884.
Let us now pass down, not by annual steps,
but by one long stride, to the present time:
from 1884, when George Bourne gathered to-
gether every thing that was loathsome and re-
voting in any way connected with the subject,
and stimulating the passions of men, women,
and children, by presenting it as fair Picture
Of Slavery''-down to the present day. We
shall thus be enabled to compare the light and
lone of the earlier abolitions.s with the light and
lore of the Massachusetts abolitionists Of 1851.
And thus we shall find our causes and effects
in closer proximity, and begin to perceive a
connection, not for one moment to be mistaken,
between the reasonable fingers of unconsttu-
tional abolition which pulled the wires, and the
mob of black and white puppets that prevented
the execution of the Fugitive Slave law ON the
fifteenth day ofFebruary last. SIGMA.