Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1879-05-31 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

DEATH OF WILLIAII LLOYD GARRISON.  A telegram from New York states that Mr William Lloyd Garrison died at eleven o'clock on Saturday night. The " Times." of Monday, in a leading article, says :—Few men can hope for a career so complete as William Lloyd Garrison, whose death we announce this morning. The preacher of emancipation in the United States of America, he saw the apparent purpose of his mission accomplished while he was still on the threshold of old age. When he took up the cause, the first feeling in the mass of his countrymen was simple astonishment at the eccentric folly of the movement. The founders of American independence had proclaimed , liberty as the inherent right of humanity. They Lad seen no inconsistency in retiring comfortably from signing is charter to plantations stocked with negro bondmen. An incongruity which had not offended Washington and Jefferson need not to have revolted a New England shoemaker and rail splitter. Mr Garrison and his few companions had to teach a new language, and almost invent an alphabet. At length they made their purpose understood, and the mood of their opponents changed from surprise to fury. Not merely the Virginian slave breeders and the Carolina cotton-growers saw their property threatened. Popular American sentiment was also arrayed against the new doctrine. Americans at length perceived in the little coterie a body of conspirators against the fair fame of the nation. At the moment the American citizen was taunting Europe with its monarchical enthralment, men reared in the great republic asked with a sneer whether the serfs of kings and nobles sold human beings in a slave market. Mr Garrison would have been assassinated in Georgia, lie ran the chance of being lynched in Boston. On one occasion he would have been murdered in the open street except for the discreet concession of the authorities to the crowd in committing him to gaol for the crime of free speech. Daily insults and scowling faces met him evcrywhere for some thirty years. At the end of that time he found himself a triumphant leader in a dominant cause. The majority of American citizens had accepted his watchword, and slavery in the United States was dead. No single man had done so mach towards effecting that result as Mr Garrison. In season and out of season, his weekly denunciations of slavery had pervaded the North American Continent until what had appeared a monstrous experiment at setting one half of a nation against the other seemed open principally to the one reproach that the Liberator was always promulgating truisms. For fame its editor and chief writer had been only too successful. He had recruited among his disciples men of popular gifts, who were thought to have discovered what they had learned of him. For a single life to have witnessed the overthrow of the institution of slavery was an enviable distinction.  The death is announced of Mr James Grant, the well known author and journalist, and for many years editor of the Morning Advertiser. THE CONVERSION OF THE Jaws.—The report on the Jewish Mission, submitted to the Assembly of the Free Church at Edinburgh. on Friday, showed that the cost of converting five Jews during the year had been £5,621, or £1,124 49 per head; while from the corresponding report in the Established Assembly it appeared tkat some £5,000 had been spent in pro. diming one " anxious inquirer."