William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : the story of his life told by his children . e of nearly two years, and a pecuniaryloss of thousands of dollars, he returned home on foot,i32o-2i. in the winter season (a distance, by the route he had totravel, of seven hundred miles), he found that Osbornhad disposed of his paper. Meanwhile (in 1820) a small octavo monthly newspapercalled the Emancipator had been established at Jones-borough, Tennessee, by Elihu Embree, also a Friend, towhom must be accorded the honor of publishing the firstperiodical in America of which the one avowed objectwas opposition
William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : the story of his life told by his children . e of nearly two years, and a pecuniaryloss of thousands of dollars, he returned home on foot,i32o-2i. in the winter season (a distance, by the route he had totravel, of seven hundred miles), he found that Osbornhad disposed of his paper. Meanwhile (in 1820) a small octavo monthly newspapercalled the Emancipator had been established at Jones-borough, Tennessee, by Elihu Embree, also a Friend, towhom must be accorded the honor of publishing the firstperiodical in America of which the one avowed objectwas opposition to slavery, When Lundy heard of it hedeemed it unnecessary to attempt anything of the kindhimself; but, ou his way home from St. Louis, news ofEmbrees death reached him, and he then resolved toestablish a new journal at Mount Pleasant, In July,1821, the first number of the Genius of Universal Eman-cipation was issued. It was begun without a dollar ofLifeofLmi- capital, and with only six subscribers, and for a time dy,p- 20. Lundy walked a distance of twenty miles, each month,. Mt. 21-23.] EDITORIAL EXPERIMENTS. 89 to Steubenville, to get the paper printed, and returned chap. iv. 1826-1828. with the edition on his back. Early in the following year the Genius was removed to x%zGreenville, Tennessee, through the urgency of ElihuEmbrees friends, and printed on the press of the lateEmancipator. The untiring editor travelled half of theeight hundred miles thither on foot, his family followinghim a few months later. He remained there till 1824,learning the printers trade, so as to do his own work,and publishing the only anti-slavery journal in It was a small monthly of sixteen pages, shabbilyprinted, but it was full of vigor and earnestness, and itgradually obtained a considerable circulation. A trip toPhiladelphia (distant six hundred miles) in the winter of1823-4, for the purpose of attending the biennial meet-ing of the American Convention for the Abolition ofSlavery,2
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