Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-09-18
A PROPHET NOT WITHOUT HONOR.

A PROPHET NOT WITHOUT HONOR.
William L. Garrison is now in Euro
receiving series of ovations as the gre
Liberator. In the eyes of antislavel
men abroad he has done more to unbi1
the letters of the four million slaves
this country than any other man. Twel,
Years ago, only, biographer in sketchin
Garrison, said it would be difficult fl
the present generation to do him justic
so many millions of the American peopl
hated him, and 50 many thousands q
comparatively good men. dislikad him
He predicted, however, that fifty year
hence Garrison's name would be reveret
by the American nation. The autho
felt as certain Of this % he did of til,
ultimate overthrow Of human slavery
Perhaps no man has been 50 much tn,
victim Of the adverse prejudices of The
American people as William L. Garrison
Scorned, reviled, prosecuted and impris.
ooed, he claimed to be heard by them in
behalf Of the -trodden image Of
Christ. Denunciation, scorn, persecu.
tions, imprisonmeuts. mobbings and
threats Of death only seemed to anneal
his iron logic, and render his fierce de.
nunciationS of the giant wrong of man.
stealing, selling and whipping ten-fold
more severe and effective.
Commencing with the advocacy Of
gradual emancipation he soon became a
full grown and uncompromising abolition
list, and for nearly forty years he fought
the battle "on that line" with little hope
liberalization or reward on earth save the
rewards Of conscience Few more exalted
examples of devotion to principle can be
found in history. To all his Prosecutors
in church or in state, his reply was,-
"Strike, but hear mel'
If a Yankee merchant fitted out slave
ship, he denounced him as pirate; if
Yankee minister of the Gospel ran to the
Bible to find arguments to sustain the in
stitution, he held him up as time serving
hypocrite-a whited sepulchre, full of rot
tenness and dead mems bones He would be
heard. Nothing could daunt him--noth.
ing could shake his deathless faith in the
divine purpose to overthrow the hell.borp
institution of American Slavery. The
evil was so gigantic. SO appalling, that no Q
matter if party. Church and Constitution Q
went too, the evil must be engulfed in the I
fiery hell whence it had its birth. The '
nation scorned and denounced but while a
they scorned and denounced, they believed t
and trembled q
For our own part we felt when the first
reasonable spade broke ground around '
Fort sumpter that, as surely as that God e
was just, American Slavery was doomed. s
Feeling from that moment this calm assu P
rance in our souls, we have since general Il
y had no desire to discuss the subject, 6
except in the manner chosen by its friends
tho stern discussion of arms. Yet 90. II
,asionally we do feel little itching in O.
our. nib to round few periods Of eulogy 81
10 those great early martyrs to the cause n
ike Parker, Giddings and Garrison. For c.
most Of their lives they won only hard d
are and hard toll. They seemed to be N
reasuring up only shame and obloquy. Of
since the scene on Calvary We believe OIL
here never were truer and more heroic to
martyrs than the early anti,slavory agi-i 81
ators Of this century. A
II takes no great courage to look racks r
nd fagots in the face. "But the temp. W
alton of long life Of neglect. and scorn, ~ 81
nd obloquy. and shame. and want, and
esertion by false friends live blame. ="
1888, though blamed. cut off from human
ympathy," this is the martyrdom that
'quires the very sublimity Of moral be. at
'ism. We confess to thrill Of joy 90
hen We see one Of these men. though te,
zen in a foreign land, experience fore. ize
'ste of the heaven be has earned, just
ofore he passes over" Al,