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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 8: the Liberator—1831. (search)
ion of such diabolical papers. The crime is as great as that of poisoning the waters of life to a whole community. We know nothing of the man: we desire not to have him unlawfully dealt with: we can even conceive of his motive being good in his own opinion,—but the citizens of Boston are urged to step forward and vindicate the cause of humanity, as it is outraged by the publication to which we refer. Mr. Garrison in vain sought a hearing in self-defence in the columns of Messrs. Gales and Seaton: The one an English cockney, with little to recommend him but his inflated vanity, and the other a sprig of the negro aristocracy of North Carolina (Lundy, Genius, October, 1831). You have (I Lib. 1.165. hope unintentionally) calumniated my character and put my life in jeopardy. There were several reasons why the editors of the Intelligencer should refuse to print a letter from this madman, telling them that their remarks on the Tarboroa extract breathe the spirit of murder and exhibit