Smyrna times., 1866-01-10
Garri>On's Farewell.


VIM. Lloyd Garrison, the noted abolitionist
and editor Of the LtLerator, noted abolition
paper, has discontinued that journal, and in d
farewell address, says
Commencing my editorial career when only
twenty years Of age, | have followed it contin-
uOUsly till | have attained my siXticth year
first in the connection with The FIRE Press, in
NewburypOrt, in the spring of 1926 next with
The National PHHctdhr0pi%t, in Boston, in
S2T ; next with The Jommai fHc Times, in
Bennington, Vt, in lS2S-9; next with The Ge-
| rms of CHirc&dt Emuncjj jj,dtion. i'll Baltimore
i'll lS2O-30; and finally, with THE Liberator, in
Boston, from the first Of january, 1881, to the
first OF january lS66; at the start, probably
the Youngest member of the editorial tratemi-
| ty in the land, now, perhaps the oldest, not in
years, but III continuous servicc--unlesS Mr.
Bryant of the New York Eroaitg Post, be an
exception.
Whether I shall again be connected with
the press, in similar capacity, is quite pro-
blemati,al but, at my period Of life, feel no
prompting to start a new journal at my own
risk, and with the certainty Of struggling
against wind and tide as | have Gone in the
past.
4 "The object for which the Lijerator
was commemorative determination OF chattcl
slavery having been gloriously consummatod,
1t seems to me specially appropriate to let lta
existence cover the historic period Of the great
struggle, leaving what remains to be done to
complete the work of emancipation to other in
strumcntalites tOf which l hope to avail my
self, under new auspices, with more abundant
means and with millions instead Of hundreds
for allies
Most happy am to be no longer in con-
t1lct with the mass of my fellow countrymen on
the subject Of slavery. For no man OF any re-
fincment or scnsibility can be Indifferent to the
appreciation Of his fellow men, if it be rightly
earned. But to obtain it by going with the
multitude to do evil-by panderng to despotic
| power or corrupt public sentimcnt-is self
degradation and personal dlahonor:
For more true joy Marcellus exilel feels
Than Caesar with senate at his heels.
Better to be always in a minority of one with
God-branded as madman, incendiary fanat-
lc, hereto, intidcl-trOwned upon by the pow
ers that be, and mobbed by the popu.avc--or
consigned ANONYMOUSLY to the gallow,, like
him whose soul is marching on, though his
body lie. mouldering iii the grave, or burnt
to ashes like Wicklitfc or nailed to the cross
like Him who gave Himself for the world :
in defence Of the Right, than like lIerod, hlv-
ing the shouts of a multitude, crying 1t is
the voice of god, and not Of a man
\ GLOBE or GoLD.-NIr. John Calvin Moss,
of England, has started new theory res
pectinc the centre of the earth. He believes
that the interior of our globe Instead Of being
vast, frey ocean, is solid mass of gold and
and platinum Gold and platinum, he argues,
are the heaviest substances, and in the cooling
Of the earth would naturally sink from the sur
face towards the centre. One-ffth OF the
earth may therefore be composed Of these met
als-a globe four or five inches thick. Just
think of it What pile otmoncy! Enough
to pay Uncle Sans debt, and give Us al! Il
million apiece. How provident in nature to
establish such a sinking fund, and how prJvi-
Dental that it should be discovered just now,
when We need it so much to pay off our nation
al debt
Certainly, says Mr. Moss, with bee oming
| gravity, no safer place for such deposit could
b. found, than the heart of the earth.
| But We hope he does not imagine it is safe
there just let our oil hOrers get a hint OF
his theory, and old mother earth will be bored
aS She never was before. That will tear hci
very heart out. The company that proposed
to run a canal under all the oil wells, and drain
off the whole at one swOOp will undoubtedly re
linquish that enterprise, and strike straight fol
the earth centre Petroleum will be nowhere
The Great Golden Globe Company will bt
Immediately Organized-ten thousand million
shares at one dollar share. just let US sc
at that great central globe, and gold will be
drug i'll the market. Greenbacks will go up &
two hundred per cent premium, and Uncl'
Sam will be in funds.