Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III EDITOR AND PAMPHLETEER Lundy, who, since leaving his new partner in Bennington, had gone to Hayti with some emancipated slaves and had returned, was waiting for Garrison when the latter arrived in Baltimore in August, 1829. This patient yet restless soul would doubtless have been content to go on indefinitely proclaiming the evils of slavery, scouring the country for subscribers or disciples, starting new societies, and wearing out mind and body by his exhausting labors. It was not so, however, with Garrison, who had already suffered a sea-change, and was now dissatisfied with the rhetorical program of his Fourth of July address. Still trusting in the methods of Providence, he saw his way to accelerate their progress by a demand for immediate, not gradual emancipation. The wonder is that in a practical and direct character like his the doctrine of gradualism could so long have found lodgment. He was now decided, and Lundy was obliged to make a pact by which each should sign his own initials to articles printed in the Genius of Universal Emancipation, which for the last five of its eight years had been issued weekly. During the editor's trip to Hayti the paper had had one of its intervals of rest—this time eight months—and was these al oc- . if not David nd with ,ety, and f slavery. ave insur- had always the edition Genius that . Ids powerful If the author, a few months or of Boston ( necessary to opinions, it is impossible to say. But it is safe to assert that had the scientific advance, under such headship as that of Charles Darwin, reached the point in 1830 at which it had arrived forty years later, there had been no such extremists in their sphere of social ethics as William Lloyd Garrison and his followers....