William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : the story of his life told by his children . ers who haveseen it. Your engraving in the title is galling to them,and often elicits a deep and bitter curse. They saw init not what it was meant to be, an appeal to the North-ern conscience, but an instigation to servile insurrec-30 Years tion. For what purpose, asked Senator Benton in 1835iew, Qf a similar issue from the abolition mint, coiddsuch a picture be intended unless to inflame the passionsof slaves?—as if it could sink deeper into their con-sciousness than the lash itself !2 And in this latter ye
William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : the story of his life told by his children . ers who haveseen it. Your engraving in the title is galling to them,and often elicits a deep and bitter curse. They saw init not what it was meant to be, an appeal to the North-ern conscience, but an instigation to servile insurrec-30 Years tion. For what purpose, asked Senator Benton in 1835iew, Qf a similar issue from the abolition mint, coiddsuch a picture be intended unless to inflame the passionsof slaves?—as if it could sink deeper into their con-sciousness than the lash itself !2 And in this latter yearMr. Calhouns unsuccessful bill to guard the South fromanti-slavery propagandism made it a penal offence for 1 The newspapers of the clay were full of deprecation of it. His morecautious friends counselled him to suppress it. Mr. Sewall very kindlyoffered to pay for the whole of it if I would have plain type instead ofit (MS. stenographic report of speech at the 20th anniversary of theLiberator). 2 Compare J. G. Birneys letter to the Alabama Vigilance Committee(Lib. 6:12).. VOL,. I ] WILLIAM G. IRKISON AND ISAAC KNAPP, PUBLISHERS. INO. 17. lluWns M*SS»CH1 ] S T,„. C«tST»t »»? [S»TURD .tl23, 1831. fa a hiosraeosb THE LIBERATOR ,,t™,nBOr«dy if e*bonftn Liciliicn,ibcuWsptak ^Et. 26.] the liberator. 233 postmasters in any State, District, or Territory know- 30 Yearsingly to deliver, to any person whatever, any pamphlet,newspaper, handbill, or other printed paper or pictorialrepresentation, touching the subject of slavery, where, bythe laws of the said State, District, or Territory, theircirculation was prohibited. Editorial courtesy stood for much more in the firstthird of the century than it does in our day. The gra-tuitous publication of Mr. Garrisons prospectus maytherefore have had little personal significance; but it isprobable that the service was in his case something morethan perfunctory. In the first place, he was already a
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