New-York daily tribune., 1866-01-04
Tafg LAST NUMEER or THE LrBH
EATlEs,


Mr. William Lloyd Garrison announces that
The LLtra,or newspaper, edited by him for
thrty-fve years, will no longer be published.
1t is singular aud encouraging fact that this
Journal, never pecuniarly prosperous, though
generally scf-sustoining, has mantlined its ex-
istence for 50 long period, during which 1t has
upheld unpopular opinions with persistency
and q consistency at once rare and admirable.
Forit must he remembered that, during this long
and agitated period, really one of the S,ormiest
in the political history of the world, the ,enden-
ces OF the country have been fiv from noble,
and its methods too often anything but valiant
that our public policy has been based upon
compromise, and an ac riesccnco in what nc ab
suFdlycalled "thc least OF two cy!ls'-tlat nine.
tenthS Of ouy people have really believed that
slavery must be left 10 some underlined fortuitous
disposition and that, either by good luck or good
management, in ths way or in that way, we
might acqu;esoe ia II. and s,l escape it, stern
and sanglnary consequences. Mr. GarrlSOn's
principal business for more than - years has
been TO declare, ioiis riribHs, in the face OF an
ncrcdulous woed that two and two make tOur,
aud not IRE According 20 the popular ariih-
me.ic, the saii sum total ight be iiyo on Mon
day, seven On Wednesday. and three u Satur-
day. NO" said Mr.. Garrison, -four is the
correct heure;" aud behold :our Il turns ont
TO he. TIE arithemciic was right-it was
Church and Cougres, AID Convention and
COnvocation, that were wrong. II seems easy
enough 20 ogr purged vision now-that sturdy
adherence to a p0lpshle. almost q rlatitudin- |,
ous truth. Butqf Mr. Garrison will only write !
hs owu biography, aud we hope he WILL We
shall fud out what yillful world this is, and
how passionately or sio!idly Tenacious II Is OF
IL fayorte and convenient errors.
II is, perhaps, too early 10 decide how much |
We owe TO what has been rather unfairly termed
Mr.. Carlson obs,inacy-hs rigid adherence
to rather narrow path. People have pe,tishly
called him man OF one ideas and, 50 iar as his
life ha, had one dominating and ineNoiable
purpose, he has been not unlike in this 10 all
who have lef, their mark IL history. But those
who suppose tka, Mr. Garrison could not have .
won brilliant success in many different fields of
cxertion, do not know the man. So far as
astuteuess is concerned, he Las the making III
him OF whole regimen, OF ordinary politicians;
as theologian, he might have been the admired
prop of divinity school; in poetry, and in
letters generally, he could have had fame for the
asking; and he has a simple practically of
the very stuff out Of which Railway
Presidents are made If he had been constructed
without 4 conscience. it is impossible to compute
the mischief which he might have done
No difference of opinion as to the methods
sometimes pursued by Alr. Garrison can blind
us to the beauty and value Of the example
which he has given to his countrymen Of the
sustaining force Of personpl as opposed to
public conscience. In sensuous age, he has
made il possible for Us to believe that the
are not all myths-ihat the breed
of Husses and WycklilIcs and Latimers is not
extinct. Fanatic" has been his title Of honor.
Ask the man who hates him the most bitterly
i he thinks that Mr. Garrison would have died
Tor his opinion, and the answer will he swift
and definite" OF course he would How
many of his critics and assailants would die for
their opinions' Or rather, how many of them
have any opinions to die forl We lead such
nimless and unlovely lives. 20 void Of earnest.
hess and daily beauty; we are so plant
in the storm and 10 comfortable in the
calm; we shift SO from this purpose to the other
ls interest dictates, that an infexible adherence
10 any idea seems to us mere lunacy and waste
amid our constant thriltiness and material &c.
of human strength and capacity.
But now and then comes a man like Mr.. Gar
rison to show us our mistake; to demonstrate
the value of patient waiting; to prove what
virtue there il in fidelity to single labor to
lefy passion aud error and misunderstanding
and hatred, and to accomplish some great work
vital to the progress of man and yet i'll his sight
impossible. II is encouraging to us to find that
Mr.. Garrison believes the special lietask which
he early assigned to himself rs good as accom-.
plohed. There may and must DO other and new
oums Of wrong; but Mr.. Garrison believes this
'peci6e ;ip ci Sleyegy 20 oA.,t 40 lonser. lie u