Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-27
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Tuesday Evening, May ~, 1879.
VIM. LLOYD GARRISON.

Death or tho Anu-Sisv-ry Agitstor AZ
New York u" the 2Ath Inst.
William Lloyd Garrison, the pioneer
anti.slavery agi.ator, died at the North
western Hotel, New York, on the Oath
inst. He was born at Newburyport, Mass,
on Dec. ~, 1904. AT the age of nine he
was apprenticed to a shoemaker at Lynn,
but his mother, finding that the business
did not suit him, sent him back to New
buryport, where he went to school Tor
some time, working out Of school hours in
order to pay his beard. In 1918 he COM
menced to learn cabinet-making, but this
proving also distasteful TO him, he was. in
October of the same year, appreDticed to
the printer of the Newburyport Herald.
The occupation suited his taste, and he
soon made himself master of the mechani-
cal part Of the business, and when only 16
or II began 10 write for the Herald. His
contributions, which were anonymous, we're
favorably received, and he soon commeu-
ced to send articles TO the Salem Gazette
and other papers, drawing the attention Of
political circles by a series Of articles
under the signature Of "Aristides,"
with the view of removing the almost
universal apathy on the subject Of
slavery. In 1924, he became editor Of the
Herald, and in 1925, proprietor and edi-
tor of the Free Press, in which he was
accustomed to set up his own editorial arti-
cles in type without writing them. This
enterprise vas unsuccessful, and he went
to Boston, where he worked for a time as
a iourneyman printer. In 1927, he be-
came the editor of the National Philan-
throphist in that city; in 1928 he Joined a
friend in the publication of the Journal
of the Times at Bennington, Vermont,
aud in 1929 be Joined Mr.. Landy at Bal
timore in editing the Genius of Universal
Emancipation-a journal advocating the
emancipation of the slaves, and published
in Baltimore. His invectiyes against the
internal slave trade and the men who were
prosecuting it led TO his incarceration for
libel. He remained in prison about two
months, when a New York merchant paid
his fine and effected his release. On the
lat of January, 1881, he commenced in
Boston the publication of the Liberator, q
weekly anti-slavery journal, which he
managed for thirty-four years. The legis
lature Of Georgia passed an act offering a
reward of $4,000 to any person who would
apprehend, bring to trial and prosecute tc
conviction under the laws of the State the
editor or publisher of that paper. For the
first five years he was frequently threatened
with assassination, and his friends urged
him to go armed; but, being consclentiously
a NONRESIDENT, he refused. In 1885 a moi
in Boston broke up a meeting OF the lie
male anti-slavery society, and violently
dragged Mr.. Garrison, who was one Of the
murder him. He was rescued by the
mayor, and placed in the Jail for the nigh,
to preserve his life.
He had visited England in 1888, and
made the acquaintance of the eminent anti.
slavery leaders there. On his return he
. aided in organizing the American anti
slavery society, of which he was subse
qnently president for twenty-five years. Ir
1910 he again visited England. and wa:
. cordially received. During the next twenty
years and more he continued to contend fol
the immediate emancipation OF the slaves
!. gaining in influence and power each year
and when the great result was accomplished
in 1865, he resigned the presidency of til,
anti-slavery society, and discontinued tn,
publication of the Libera.or, as its mission
l was accomplished. In 1865, after the tota
abolition of slavery in this country, his
friends presented him with $500 600 as
q memorial of his services. In 1867 he was
. once more in England, and entertained at a
public breakfast in St. James hall, where
the pnke of Argyle and Mr.. Bright COM
y plimented him on his public services.