Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-06-05
VIM. LLOYD Garrison,

who died in New York on Saturday,
May oath, were taken to Roxbury,
Massachusetts,, and on the 2Sth ult. were
consigned to their last resting place,
amid solemn ceremonies in which promi-
nent citizens of Boston and vicinity
participated. Euloges were pronounced
by Wendell Phillips, Rev. Samuel May,
and others who had been Mr.. Garrison's
friends and fellow laborers in the anti
slavery struggle.
Mr.. Garrison was one OF those men of
strong convictions and great tenacity Of
purpose that always come to the front
in times of agitation, and when great
questions are to be determined, and
make themselves felt in the discussion
and settlement of the questions at issue.
His early life was one of poverty and
suffering, and this had much to do, no
doubt, with shaping his character. He
was born in Newburyport, Mass, on the
18th of December, 1904. His mother is
said to have been a beautiful and highly
intelligent and spirited woman, who
drew down upon herself the anger
and persecution of her family and
some of her relatives by joining the
Baptist church. For this she was
driven from homo, but was subsequent
ly reconciled with her family. Her
marriage proved unfortunate; her hus-
band, brilliant man, became dissipat-
ell, and subsequently abondaned her
and her children to follow a reckless
course. 1t is not surprising that CARR.
son, born to such heritage, should
have grown up to hate intemperance
and everything like wrong. At the age
of thirteen years he was apprenticed to
the printers trade in the Office of the
Newburyport Herald, and so thoroughly
acquired the art that when he became
an editor he could 60 to the case and
put his editorials in type without hav-
ing written them out.
At the age of twenty-five, he started
the Newburyport Free Press, but this
failed within a year. He went to Bos-
ton, and became editor of the National
Philantkropist, paper devoted to the
advocacy Of total abstinence. This also
was an improbable undertaking, and he
gave it up, and, going to Bennington,
VT, edited for time the Journal of
the Times. About this date he
became interested in the cause of grad
ual emancipation Of the slaves, as repre-
sented by the colonization society, and
he soon left Bennington for Baltimore,
to edit an anti-slavery paper, his idea
then being gradual emancipation, aided
by the general government. This he
soon came to think was too tame q way
to deal with giant evil, and one day
seeing New England vessel load with
a cargo of slaves for New Orleans, he
denounced the act as one of "dOmestic
piracy" and for this onslaught upon
the "peculiar institution" he was
arrested, tried, and convicted, under the
laws of Maryland, for libel, and SEN
fenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and be
imprisoned until the fine was paid. He
had no such sum of money, and little
inclination to pay the fine if he had had
the means. The affair attracted very
general attention, and Whittier wrote to
Henry Clay asking him to pay the fine,
which he was about to do, when Arthur
Tappan, Of New York, stepped forward
and paid it. While in prison, Garrison
wrote to the judge who sentenced him,
osayAuS Sun1 "AAo AIOSAOSnCo oAOu1O
give him strength and insellect, he
would not cease to declare the exis-
tence of slavery III this country foul
to the American name" and he
kept his word. '7 ''s~'-' -'. .~ '"'- .
From Baltimore the young apostle lib
crty went to Boston, and began, in connec-
ton with Isaac Knapp, printer, the
of tho LibtTdtoy, devoted to
the anti.slavery cause. These young
men had no means except their hands and
brains, but they were moved by love of
liberty, and after doing days work in
the Christian Examiner Office they worked
upon their own paper, using the type Of
The Examiner, for which they paid in
work: Such was the beginning of the
anti.slavery cause. This beginning Of