The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14

a and sent to Hayti. In 1925 Mr.. Lundy
3 went 10 that Island to SEE after his proteges
8 and TO ascertain Its capabilities and re-
sources as land of promise for freed ne
; groes; and he was greatly disappointed In
} finding the negroes there far below the
level OF the southern slaves in morality,
) religion and every manly condition. Save
freedom, they had nothing else. They we're
lazy, debauched and brutal, and easily led
by any white adventurer 70 any act of
criminality But the fault was a want of
education and moral training While there
he received the sad intelligence of the
death of his wife. He returned home at
once and found himself tied very closely
to the management of his paper, which,
though it increased greatly In Its circula-
ton, was never afterwards the same pure,
consistent and charitable monitor of good.
ness as when managed and edited by his
beloved wife. Her loss was permanent to
the paper and to him, and one which
neither ever fully recovered.
In 1928 he journeyed through the Middle
or Eastern States, as they were then known,
to extend the circulation of his paper, to
lecture and make acquaintances. II was
during this expedition that he met Arthur
Tappan, of New York, and William Lloyd |
Garrison, of Boston, neither of whom al
that time had acquired any fame as aboli.
tionists, beyond their respective homes,
except Mr.. Lundy. He was then recog-
nized as the leading abolition agitator of
the United States, ALL few years after,
acquired a worldwide fame, At Boston,
Mr. Lundy succeeded, after many endeay-
ors, in getting up the first nti.slavery
meeting ever held In that city, and organ.
izing there the first abolitiOnist society in
New England, He lectured afterwards on
that subject in Hartford, New Haven,
Providence, Nantucket. Portland, and
many other leading towns in that section of
the country and organized societies against
slavery in all those cities.
BEFORE THE COURTS.
Mr.. Lundy's mode of conducting the
Genius provoked the deadly ire of man
named Austin Voolfolk, a Baltimore slave
trader, by whom Mr. Lundy was assaulted
and nearly killed. The rufrian was arrested
and tried The judge, in his instructions
to the jury, said "Lundy got no more than .
he deserved" and OF course the jury ac- ,
quilted Voolfolk The same judge, in his
zeal to stand by slavery, sent q copy of
Lundy's paper, with Objectionable articles
with view to his Indictment, =
but no law could be found sufficiently
strong to muzzle free press, and the courts .
scheme failed.
MORE INDICTMENTS, AND IN PRISON,
In 1928, he again went to Hayti, with ~
slaves, given him this time by slave
holder of Maryland, under the same condi.
lions as before. After his return to Balti-
more, he was Joined by VIM. Lloyd Garri.
son as assistant in the editorship of the
Genius, and Mr.. Lundy made another tour. '
Mr.. Garrison, less cautious than his chief,
and failing to create aud enjoy the warm q
personal friendships, which It vas the pc !,
culiar good fortune of Mr. Lundy to secure
he went, was arrested and thrown !,
Into Jail because of this ourspoken denun- 4.
Citations of slavery and slaveowners, but
was finally released after paying a fine,
when he forsook the Genius, and left the !.
city! The paper then fell into Mr.. Lundy's
exclusive management. Not being able to
secure competent and suitable assistant,
II was changed from q weekly to monthly i
publication, an arrangement which enabled /
him more conveniently to dirlde his time a
between his duties as lecturer and as an
editor; but the plan failed, because the /
hatred which had achieved victory over
Garrison was started In pursuit of Lundy,
and half dozen indictments were soon
against him, and he, too, was i'm
prisoned. Finally, on his being released,
and probably as consideration for his ,
liberty, on being released, he abandoned {
Baltimore aud moved 10 Washington City.
THE GENUS ID Es MORE TRAvRLe.
For IL while the Genius was issued semi. {
at the capitol city, under the
of different persons. Under
the conducting of Mr., Evan Lewis, in Jan.
1884 1t was removed TO Philadelphia, at
which place Mr.. Lewis died, the same
year Then DR.. Alice took it and under HE
1t was suspended
for want of support At thst time Mr..
Lundy had been absent three years, occas-
ionally writing communications and editor
ias for it, but unable to furnish that fire,
vim and spirit which for so many years
had characterized that staunch champion
of human rights. 1t died more for the
lack of brains and energy of its founder
than anything else. In the meantime,
since 1880, Mr.. Lundy had been travelling
and working necessarily. He had visited
Canada and looked critically over that