The broad ax., 1905-12-09
One Hundredth Anniversary of
the Birth of William Lloyd
Garrison.
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I resolved 10 olp MS pen IN gan anu
burning fire, and enter the arena, and
to do battle unto death with that by
draheaded monster slavery!
Immediately after William Lloyd
Garrison took upon himself solemn
VOW Of perpetual conservation to the
slave; which was as follows, Before
God and our country, we give our
pledge that the liberation Of the en-
shaved Africans shall always be up
permost in our pursuits" he left Bos-
ton. and became a resident Of Ben
nington Vermont, where he assumed
the editorsihp of The Journal Of the
Times, and in closing his connection
with that paper in 1929, he declared
that he had been invited to occupy
broader field, and to engage in a high
er enterprise: that field embraces the
whole country-that enterprise is in
behalf of the slave population"
On August 18th 1929, william Lloyd
Garrison, bid farewell to his friends
In Boston and set out for Baltimore
where he was to assist Ben. Lundy In
the editorship of his paper The Gen.
ius of Universal Emancipation, for the
first two or three months they pro-
crossed very nicely; but at the end
of that time, william Lloyd Gar
rison bitterly assailed Francis
Todd, a merchant OF Newburyport'
for allowing one Of his vessels to
sail for New Orleans, with a gang OF
seventy-fve slaves; at the instance OF
Francis Todd, William Llyod Garrison
was arrested for publishing gross
and malicious libel" He was indict-
ed by the Grand Jury for Baltimore,
and one the first of March 1880, he
was convicted, and not being able to
pay his fine Of fifty dollars and cost
which amounted to almost one hund-
red dollars, he was committed to jail
for seven weeks, and just forty-nine
days after entering the Baltimore jail
as a priosner, Arthur Tappan, rich
New York, merchant sent him one
hundred dollars to pay his fine, and
he was willing to advance another
hundred dollars for the further pur-
pose of reviving the paper which had
suspended, but as William Lloyd Gar
rison aptly, put it ''he could knock
dozen subscribers on, while friend
Lundy could secure one" and on
March 1880 The Genius, went glimm-
ering through the dream Of things that
were no more, after his second fall
ure In the Journalistic world he again
returned to Boston, and on January
1, 1897, his new paper The Lberator
made its first appearance in the
world. 1t was an Insignificant sheet,
consisting Of four columns to the page,
measuring fourteen inches one way
and nine and a quarter the other.
Oliver johnson, has left behind him
a vivid description of the office OF
The Lberator, "Its dingy walls: the
small windows in the merchants
hall building despatched with prin-
ter's ink; the press standing in one
corner; the composing stands oppo-
site; the long editorial and mailing
table, covered with newspapers; the
bed Of the editor and publisher on the
floor; Negro boy who cleaned up the
office his chief campion," and for the
first two years every one connected
with The Liberator which ran for
thirty-fVe years, labored fourteen
hours each day, subsisted mostly
upon bread and milk, a few cakes,
and a little fruit, which they obtained
from a bakers shop near by.
Within a few weeks alter The Liber-
ator had blazed forth, within sight Of
Bunker Hill, where Crispus Attacks
fell, it contained the following senti-
ments:
81 solicit no mans praise"
II fear no mans censure."
~Our trust for victory is solely In
God. We may be personally defeated.
but our principles, never!"
Il am In earnest"
Il win not equivocate."
81 win not retreat a single inch"
"And VIII Be Heard"
The Southern shareholders and
their sympathizers throughout the
North suddenly became alarmed at
his bold or daring declarations, and
the legislature Of the state Of Gecr-
gia, offered q reward Of ave thous-
and dollars for the body Of William
Lloyd Garrison, dead or alive" the
head officials Of many other Southern
states were perfectly willing to follow
suit, and while the people In the north
were holly elammoring for his warm