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Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 1: the Liberator (search)
ugust, 1830, he issued proposals there for a paper of his own. He also began to lecture on slavery. When he advertised for a free hall in Boston for an anti-slavery address not a church volunteered, although it was the custom of the time to hold all kinds of meetings in churches, but a favorable response was received from an infidel society. It was actually a fact that at that period Garrison was almost the only man in New England whose eyes were entirely open to the sin of slavery. On January Ist,.1831, the first number of the Liberator made its appearance. At the head of its columns was the motto, Our country is the World. Our countrymen are Mankind; and it was further ornamented by a wood-cut representing a slave-auction block and whipping post with the dome of the Capitol at Washington in the background. This initial number struck one note which distinguished it at once from all other antislavery publications. It called for immediate and unconditional emancipation. Until