, 1874-06-12

n which Abolitionists OF evory school must: bo
iutoroHtod mud therefore vonttro to hopo that
1t will give pleasure to all Lloso WHO mGy attend
your meeting. Yours, with great respect
OLIVER JOHNSON.
New Yonn, May 10, 1874.
SKETCH OF WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.
{EH Ofirer Joh,'soM,)
William Lloyd Garrison was born in tho ONCE
entcrprfsing mud famous, but now sleepy old
town. Of Nowouryport. in tho State Of llassa-
lerited neither wealth nor social distinction.
| His father was q aea-captAsn, Of some literary
ability and taste, but victim Of intcmperance,
| who Loft his family and wont no one knows
whittier. His mother, left III utter poverty, be-
came d professional nurse. earning, i'll that way
! bread for herself and her children. She wac
| woman Of remarkable conHcientlo'Bncss, ilide-
| poudence md energy, md deeply religious; ana
'Lcr son, probably, received from her the temper-
ament md tho moral characteristics which deter
minel his career.
t EAnLY LlFE.
| At ton years OF ago tho boy was taken by his
which Whittier 30 happily calls the gentle craft
| Of leather" Ho was 90 small that Ills knees
| tremblod under the weight of the lapstono: and
his ,nothor, finding that tho occupation did not
| tho care of good, orthodox Deacon, whose pro-
| fesBion waB TINT of a wood-Aawyer. When not
Mt school, Wiliinm assisted the good Deacon in
| llts professional labors. In 1915 Mrs. Garrison
I ~
with her. Hcre he spent year, earning bus liv-
| ing as chore-bo:. His motller next triod to
make him l. cabinet maker, bat lie liked tllis no
batter than thu lapstono. At length, at the ago
adapted to his tastes, and which became to
him both primary school and college, and fitted
him admirably for his iifo-work. In tho office Of
the Newbnryport lierafd lie herved an apron,
| ticeship OF nearly Aeven yen1B to the art and
| mystery of printing. At II years OF ago he began
| to write on political aud other topics for the
Herald, taking euro to preserve iia incoEnito. 1t
| was long time hofors Tho editor became aMare
| highly commended, WIS his own apprentice. Tho
young man wrote also for other papers, and It Ia
n remarkable proof Of his u1'us'1a ability that O.
| scrics Ut political articles which ho contributed
! to the boston Commercial Gazette not b,.ly at-
| trnctod wide attention, but wore, by Robert
Walsh, then editor Of tile Philadelphia Natioual
| Gazette, attributed to the celebrated Timothy
| Pickering. The strnGglo Of the Greeks for froe-
| dom iired bis youthful zeal uud offered con-
| genial topic for Ills pen.
sTARTI.;a ron HIMSELF.
In 1926 Lis npprentcesllip being honorabiy
ended, he began luis professional lo III editor Of
the Free Jreas newly-ostablisllod paper in the
place OF his natiyity. flo toi!cd hard, generally
putting his editorials in typo with his own hand,
| without committing them to paper. Tue Free
force, anl Of high moral touo, did not prove q
| HucceBs n1,l Mr.. Garrison went to BOSTON,
where. after working for a timo as Journey
man printor, ho beeanle tho editor OF tho Na-
fioual PAildnthropist, tho first papcr ostablishcl
in this country 10 promote :the cause OF total
abstinence FROM Intoxicating drinks. l
we'll remember this papcr, with its motto.
Moderate dripking is the downhill road
country to put down vico which then. oyon
more thun now, soemcd to ondangor tho public
| welfare. The paper In q few months chnnged
oditorsl!p, and went to Remington, VT, to
conduct tic Journal Of the Times, new papor
Established to support tho recollection Of Johu
Quincy Adams to the Presidency. but which ho also
nnce, slavery, aud war. At this time waB Borv-
ing my apprenticeship to tho printing business
nt tho Capital Of Vermont. and remember now
the eagernesB with which read tho Journal OF
The Times, 20 unlike tho other newspapers Of
TINT day III It's high moral touo and
its fearless attaoka upon the popular
evils Of tho times. Bennington. however.
other rural towns Of still less pretonsion, and
:. furnishing no ADEQUATE field for q paper Buch as
1fr. Garrison malo.
| ENTERING TIE ASTI-sLAvEny CAUSE
| Qc hnl boon theto but fcw months when m
event took p!aco TINT led him directly iuto tho
great conflict to which his life was to be de-
voted. Through the deep snowH and frigld air
of q Vermont winter came Doniamn Lu,dy, tho
Quaker philanshropBt, from baltimore to Den-
nington, to entreai tho intrepid yonng roforlnor
to Join him in the cdtorship Of the Genius of
UnirersaI Emancipation, small paper entab-
liaAed some years before to expoAe the evils Of
American Sayory. Dir. Lundy did not fail Of
his object Mr.. Garrison was easily persuaded
| to enter upon work which appealed alike to
his BympathteH and his convictions, opeuing Il
field Of effort in WHICH his beHt oliergioB and
highest aspirations would havo full play. uo
agreed to 10 to Baltimore Al the copnrtnor Of
hls friend Lundy in tho Conduct OF an Anti
slayory paper.
| THE s1TUATIoN,
The alavoH ut this time numbered little moro
l a in11a al 1Nlta- n1N taA
| carried on with gront glgor. ind was tho Honico
OF large pecuniary profit tho raising OF cotton,
sugar, aud rico, By unpaid toll on tho fertile
fields OF tho South, omployod millions Of capital,
adoption Of the Missouri Compromise, III 1920,
agitation OF tho slavery question Ind almost on
tirely coased. Tho conviction had taH.e.ed it.
self npon the public mind that any discussion Of
waa absorbed by tho Colonization Society,
a9nd thus made tributary to slavery.
r"p 5 1nd ppsss ySeo sHp , alike ,n dumb
darkness the people," Tho negro race was almost
universally regarded with contempt, ~ unit for
Freedom, aud It's ousHyoment hold to DO oon,-
patible alike with civilization aud Christianity.
III mild protest against tho System, but there
was no organizod movement for abolition. II
tho subject was mentioned at tho North, there
WY WY usunly concession that slavery was M
| .it oNe " A'o4u otuFLhl!u AnthtAtAuA tAAt lug
evil was ono that admitted Of uo preHont
remedy, aud therefore that all discussion was
not only nsoless but machoyous The
HnaAers, to TO aure, cherished. In formal way
? N an lniertsaAce from their fathers, the tosii-
I onay against holding men III bondage; but they
hsd ,,d ~ thought Of an organizei moypulent for
o,ln ano!ation even among the,n4eiyeY, 4l,d luany
9 o.ay "a.atny m1lMbers lad hoen demorallzed by tAe
= Mn, LuNDY,
Mr' i.9!idya paper had done excel!out pionooy
Noth Wy lts exposures OF tho OWLS aud cit.olLIca
0 oI tAs slAfe syslem, nud by kopiuY alive iu Clio