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tons OK humanity invest oufeeANcs VI
all letters and papers of an anti-slayery
character and do homage to the slave
holding power or run the risk Of erue'
martyrdOm. Three millions of the
Amenean people are crushed under the
American Union. They are held as
slaves, trafieked as merchandise, regis
tered as goods and ehsttels. The Gov
ernment gives them no protection, the
Government is their enemy, the Gov
ernment keeps them in chains. Where
they lie bleeding we are PROSTATE by
their side; in their sorrow and suffer
ings we participate; their stripes are
inflicted on our bodies; their shaekles
are fastened to our limbs; their cause
is Ours. Our motto is ''No Union with
Slave Holders"
Mr.. Garrison was prosecuted for trial,
indicted and convicted at the May
term, 1880, of the City Court in Balti.
more, for gross and malicious libel
against the owner and master of the
ship Francis belonging to Mr.. Francis
Todd of NewbuyPort, Mass, which
took on cargo of slaves from Balti-
more to New Orleans for the Louisiana
market. It reused all the righteous in
dignation of Mr.. Garrison, who de-
nouneed it as an act of domestic piracy,
and declared his intention to cover
with thick infamy al who were en-
gagged in the diabOlical transaction. In
spite of an able defense of his eoun-
sci, Mr.. Charles Mitchell, who occupied
position at the Baltimore Bar as an
eminent pleader in the courts, he was
convicted and fined fifty dollars and
costs of court. The persecution against
Mr.. Garrison was continued BY Mr..
Todd, the owner OF the slave ship, by
getting a yerdist in a civil suit Of one
thousand dollars. Owing to his we'll
known poverty, the judgment was not
enforced. During his imprisonment he
was considerably placed in cell re-
Gently vacated by a man who had been
hung for murder. The Northern Press
generally condemned his imprisonment
as unjust and protested it as an in
fraction of the liberty of the Press.
After fOrty-nine days imprisonment he
was released by the payment of the fine
by Mr.. Arthur Tappan, New York
merchant, whose generosity, anticipated
by a few days, a similar purpose on the
part of Henry Clay, whose interest had
been awakened by mutual friend. To !
Daniel Webster also Mr.. Garrison was
indebted. Soon after his release, for
and encouragement. Freed /
from his chains, the dauntless champion
Of the oppressed issued a prospectus
for an anti-slavery Journal to be pub
lished at Washington. He also prepared
a course Of lectures on slavery, which
he delivered in Philadelphia, New York,
New Haven, Hartford and Boston. He
was refused a hearing in Baltimore.
he began publication of the Liberator
on January l, 1881. He took for a
motto, "My Country Is the World, Ny
Countrymen Are All Mankind" His
prospectus declared, ''I am in earnest;
win not equivoeate; will not excuse;
win not retraet a single word; and I
Fin be heard. On this question my in
luence, humble as it is, is felt, at this
moment, TO a considerable extent and
hall be felt in the coming years
lot as a curse; but as a blessing, and
'Osterity viii bear testimony that
vas right." h
Mr.. Ganison's partner, Isaac Knapp,
Ike himself, was poor. The first cheer T
ng returns for their labors was the re- {
eipt of twenty-five subscribers from \
smes Forten, a wealthy eolored eiti- 4
en- Of Philadelphia, After that en- t,
ouragement, they cast aside an doubt a
5 to their future. Both young men
Or nearly two years slept on the floor
their humble contracted print shop.
There are abundant impeaehments of
avery contained in the speeches and
ritings of many of the public men
America who were not known as
bOlitionists. VIM. H. Seward after
ards one of the members of President =,
ineoln s illustrious War Cabinet. 1 -
i've selected the following quotation y
ON the speech of Mr. Seward, deliv- -
ed in October 1859, because it epit- "
nizes-slavery and also gave warning -
the Nation of the impending ealam- :"
Referring to the Abolition Crusade, ~
T. Seward declared, ''Shall 1 tell you VI u
nat this eollusion meansi They who "
ink it is accidental, unnecessary, the pc
'rk Of interested and fanatieal agita-
rs, and therefore ephemeral, mistake !.
case altogether 1t is an irrepres- -, -
'le conflict between opposing and en- - =
ring forces, and it means that the -
lited States must and win, sooner - -
later, become either entirely slave p, -
lding Nation or entirely a free-labor. .e -
.tion-'' Oh
Wendell Philips was earnest in tir
atever cause he espoused. Truth
$ his sheet anchor; he abhorred the
ak and mountebank. He always q,
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