New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-14
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| Journatof the Times As a boy, / had greatly adj
mred The National PhiiaRhr0pist, and had tried nv
own prentice hand a n writer in its columns But
| found new cause for admirng The Journal Of the
Times in the fact that IL published in my native
| State. How eagerly did read and flo away for
| preservation every number as it TO the Office
| in which Twas serving my apprenticeship The
| UachmaR office in Montpelier. II was 10 me the
! ideal newspaper, and it stirred in my youthful
breast that ambition of editorsbip which springs I'M
| in the breast of every boy who learns to handle a
composing -stick. MIR. Garrison aid not eglect the
purpose for which his paper was established. lie
supported Mr. Adams with zeal and ability. but he
also discussed questions Of reform which were onito
dIstasteful to some of his readers He was tina
champion of temperance and peace. and Lnndy,s
Genius Of Universal Emancipation, which was among
his exchanges famed his instructive hatred of
slavery to an intense heat. He wrote petition for
the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia
which he sent to all the postmasters in the state Of
Vermont, begging them TO procure signatures there
TO- In that day postmaster5 enjoyed the privilege
receiving and sending letters free of postage and
Mr.. Garrison succeeded in getting large number Of
signatures to his petition, which caused quite
futter in Washington.
Mr. Lundy's paper was a small, dingy-lookine
greater portion of his time in travelling from place
to place procuring subscribers and endeavoring to
excIte an interest in the subject by conversation
and ecturing. In some instances he carried the
hea1-rules column-rules and subscription book of
his paper with him. and when he came 70 a town
where he found printing Office, he would stop long
enough TO print and mail "A number Of The Genius
He travelled for the most part on foot carrying
heavy pack lie was a man of slight figure though OF
wiry temperament, and these exertlOns no doubt
overtaxed his strength. In his boyhood he had seen
colies of Virginia slaves going down the Ohio on
their way to the far South. aud his Quaker educa-
ton had intensified his hatred Of the slave sys-
TEN that he counted no labor sacrifice on his part
too great TO be endured in efforts for its suppression.
No apostle of the Christian faith ever exhibited a
more ardent and unseltish devotion 20 his work than
that which characterized the ant-slayery abOrs of
this devoted but supplemented Quaker, who obeyed
the rule OF his sect in " mndIng the light Of the
Divine Spirit in his own soul. The torch Of liberty
which Mr.. Garrison was holding aloft i'm the Green
Mountains of Vermont naturally attracted his at
tention and kindled new hope IN his bosom. His
heart yeaned toward the young champion of free.
dom. and he onged to enlist HIM more fully in the
cause-to make him. if it were possible. his cOadJu-
tor. So. staff in hand, in the Winter frost and snow
he walked all the long and weary way from Bati.
more to Bennington. The meeting of these two
men under the shadow Of the Green Mountains,
whose winds were ever the swift messengers Of
freedom, may be regarded as the beginning of
movement that was destined, under God. to work the
overthrow of American slavery From this fresh
mountain spring came forth the moral influences
which, feeble at the first, became at length too
mighty to be resisted. The two men took sweet and
solemn counsel together, and formed resolution
whose final results were seen in the deyeauce OF
their country from slavery, and proclaimed in the
exultant shouts of millions OF emancipa-ed bonds
men, The immediate result Of the conference was
that Mr. Garrison agreed to join Mr. Lundy IN Biti-
more within a very short time, and to take upon
himself the prIacipll labor of editing The Genius Of
Universal Emancipation Go be issued thenceforth
weekly while Mr.. Lundy was 20 devote himself
mainly TO the work of Obtaining subscribers and de-
lyering anti-slayery lectures.
1t is Of the movement thus begun, and which
joined at a very early day, that have undertaken
to give the readers of THE TRIBUNE in a few mum
bers some of my RecOllections"