Mrs. Eddy Mentioned Them March 9, 1957 Issue

William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879

[Mentioned in Miscellaneous Writings, p. 237]

GARRISON'S contribution to the abolition movement was so great that Lincoln said: "I have been only an instrument. The logic and moral power of Garrison, and the anti-slavery people of the country and the army, have done all."

With almost no schooling, Garrison nevertheless pursued a career of writing and lecturing. When only seven, he worked in a family as chore boy and subsequently was apprenticed to a shoemaker and to a cabinetmaker. Later he became a printer's apprentice on the Newburyport Herald and contributed many articles to it. The next years he edited various publications, including the first temperance journal. In a Baltimore paper he attacked slaveholders so violently that he was sued for libel, convicted, and put in jail. A friend paid his fine. Meanwhile Garrison envisioned a journal devoted to "the abolition of slavery and the moral and intellectual elevation of our colored population." The first issue appeared in Boston, January 1, 1831, and was called the Liberator. In it he wrote: "I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. . . . I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse

—I will not retreat a single inch—AND I WILL BE HEARD."

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