New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-08-02
TFrom the Cairo Democrat ]

The radicals propose to present national
testimonial of fifty thousand dollars to William
Lloyd Garrison, the great abolitonist Speaking
Of this proposed testimonial, the New FORK Tribune
says:
"a number ofprominent citizens of several States
agreeing in hearty appreciation Of Mr.. Garrison
iabors and services to mankind, have resolved TO
raise by voluntary subscription sum sufficient to
free his old age from the shadow of want.
Mr. Garrison is now sixty-Cne years old. SOD
has heightened his days beyond the common me-
span OF humanity, and has permitted MS eyes y
behold the destruction to life and properly Rhleh
Followed the success AZ he polls Of the dangerous
tanatieal political doctrines o. Wnch tle hds osen
the foremost and most enthqslastlc aeyoeats. ne
has seen the States Of the Union, WHICH ne ae-
tested, meet in armed conhscs, ana mas observed
with satisfarfiod the imminent peril In which the
government has been placed by the fanatics who
made their principles their rule Of political action.
Bee,nnjIla responsible life as printer, Mr.. Gar
fison soon became an editor, and used his pen to
create dissatisfaction to the government in the
minds Of the people. At first an enemy of the
GRAND old Jackson, he went from bad to worse
until he finally entered upon the work of creating
sectional hatred between the North and the South.
Industrious, temperate and fearless, he devoted
himself to his I" mission with ardor, and raked
among the ashes Of sectional prejudiees to find a
spark with which he could kinde fame of civil
war between the free and slave States When he
found it, he applied it to the iniammable material
at hand, and watched the raging conAagraton
with hellish satisfaction. Fields were devastated
cities were sacked the mangled forms of Ameri-
cans dotted all the land with 4 blue and gray 2
from the Potomac TO the Rio Grande-hundreds Of
thousands of gallant men, in the prime of man
hood, were sent by the hands of brothers to un.
timely grayes-the laws were disregarded-the
voice of liberty was hushed hy the clashing of re-
sounding aTmsall his work, and he stood graft
led By the spectacle and gleefully saw the dark
cloud Of national bankruptcy appear above the
political horizon and hang thteatenipgly over the
land. Thus Garrison labored for and served man
kind.
Mr.. Garrison may find evidence of his handi-
work in almost every home in the North and
South. Entering the houses over which, in the
crisis of war, the angel Of death passed and took
not only the first but the second born also he can
point 70 the empty chairs and say, g | emptied
them; that is my work. He can stand upon tbe
tomb, which mark the resting-paces of heroes
slain in battle, and he can say, & built these
Shey are my work. He can go into the habita-
tons where poverty has lived since war took from
the hearthstone its guardian, and he can say, ~
clothed you 10 these rags, and made misfortune
Your companion; this j my work. He can take
the freedman by the hand, or press him to his
breast and listen with tears in his eyes to the nit
Ill story of the negro's suffering in which he win
contrast MS happy and eontented condition
before the war with his miserable and
.I brought you from your former eondi.
ton TO your present one; that is my work" He
can look at the army of tax gatherers marching
over the land eaEing the substance of the people,
anu NJ ptiH sttl Haue tnem necessary; they
are my work. He can take the fifty thousand
dollars from his admirers, paid in fractional cur.
rency, and exchange it fer twenty-five thousand
dollars in antebelium currency, and he can ssy;
8 made this currency; it is my work. He may
meet the wounded of the war, and say to them
: was the canse Of your misfortune had your
this is my work.
Send the subscription list around. Pay him |
biood-stained greenbacks. Let the orphans, whose
fathers he killed; the widows, whose husbands he
murdered the mothers and fathers whose sons
he sent TO untmely graves, subscribe. Let the
families overished by his war give their mite.
let all those who have been ruined by his fana.
tIcism contribute. By all means, send the sub
seripton list around; keep it going, for if hell
Isii malignity deserves the reward Of money, VIII
Liam Lloyd Garrison cannot be paid too much.