, 1864-02-21

L0e captain Of the militia company lor ~
tso one meetings ~ asd Ia as
State, he-had organized twelve; or fourteen
Abolition AocIetes"- He continued hls Jour
ney through Virginia, holdiag several meet q
hgs, and organizing eocieties--of course,
not very. numerous, nor composed o.; the
bis Quaker brethren supplied him with intro
PRODUCTIONS from pluco to plnce, and flat na5
meetings were held at the points where vio-
Lent opposition was least likely to be- Of
cctoler, an4 issued on the 10th No. l Of Vol
unc ". of Tie Genius, which CONTINUED to
tc we'll supported, though receiving little
encouragement from Baltimore ITSELF "A
yer aitGIwa1d, Il began To Le iSsucd weekly
II, Lundy visited Hayu in the latter part, OF
for the reception Of 4 number oi alayes, whose
masters were willlngto enoancfpato them on
condition OF their removal from the country
-fu latt, were not allowed, by the laWs OF
tEtir reflective et-tes to free them other
Nise.., being detained longer than M be had or
With tiCtEgs Of tho death Of his wife,: after
giving birth to tTins, md hastcned. to his
dwelling to find 1t entirely deserted, his i've
cLiiGicn tuying been distributed among Ills
friends. In that hour Of intense atllietion,
L. renewed Ills solemn VOW TO devote his en-
tire energies to the canse Of the slave, and to
tEoTtE designed to awaken his countrymen
to eerec ct their responsibility and their
Ganger.s In 1898, he travelled eastward, lee
trsiEg md soliciting subscribers to his Genius,
and calling, In New York, on Arthur Tappan,
William Goodcl, ind other ant-slaycry men.
At Boston he could hear Of no Abolitonists,
but made the acquaintance, at his boarding
Lousc, Of Wfllfom Lloyd Garrison, a fellow
b0arder, whose attention hnd not previously
been drawn to the Slavery Question, but who
1cadi1y embraced his views. He visited sue
ctfslye1y most Of the clergymen Of Boston,
and induced eight Of them, belonging to
various eccts, to meet him. AL Of them, on
explanation, approved his labors, and SUBJ
scrited for Ills periodical; and, in the course
ofa few daye. they aided him TO hold an
tended. At the clofc Of his remarks, several
clereynen expressed general concurrence
In LIS views. uc extended his journey to.
New Ea,npElire and Maiuc, 1ecturing where
mcnt. Hc spoke also In tic principal towns
OF MsEsachusetta, Rhode Island, and Con-
rectfcui; and, on lis homeward route, tr0-
ye1ted tic Stntc Of New York, speaking at
PougLkcepeie, Albany, Lockport. Utlc !, and
Eutulo, reaching sBnltlmore late In, Oct
obcr.
Lnndy made at least one other visit to
UnytI to colonies cmnncipated slaves was
beaten nearly to death in Baltimore by slave
trader, on whose conduct he had commented
III terms which seemed disrespectfu1 to the
profession; Sns iiattered by the judges as,
.or the assault, that ''he r. bad got nothing
more than he deserved" He made two
long journeys through Texas, to the Mex
icun dcpal tmcnts across the lilo G1andc, In
quest Of q suitable location on which to plant
II colony Of freed blacks from the United
Stntts, but without SUCCESS. he Travelled In
good part on foot, observing the stfictest
economy, and supporting himself by work..
ing ut eaddlcry and Understanding, from
place to plnce, as circumstances required.
Meantime, he had been compelled to remove
lis paper from Baltimore to Washington;
and finally lin 1867 to Philadelphia, where it
was entitled tie National Inquirer, ard at last
merged into the Rnnslronta Ptefnlaf. His
colonizing enterprise tooS him to Monelova,
ria, In Mexico, and consumed the better
rart orseveral yours, closing in 1855. He
also made xisit to the settlements In Canada
Of fugitIyeB from American slavery, to inquire
into the welfare Of their inhabitants. On the
18th of May, 1855, ut the burning by a mob
Of Pennsylvania Hall-built BY Abolit1oniets,
because they could be heard In no othcr-his
books, clothes, ETC., which bad been collect
cd in ono Of the rooms Of that Hall, with d
view to his migration westward, was totally
destroyed. In July, lie started for Illinois,
where his children then resided, ind reached
them In the September following. Hc plant
cd himself ut Lowell, La saIle county,
gathered his offspring about him, purchased
his Genins. But in August, 1889, he was at
tackled by prevailing fever, Of which he died
on the ed Of that month, in the 51st year of
bis age. Thus closed the record Of one Of the
most heroic, devoted, unselfeh, courageous
lives, that has ever lived on this continent