LIBERATOR FILES. WE subjoin a revised and extended list of the completest public files of the Liberator, based upon that already given in the Preface to Volume I. (p. ix). Of the private files there named, that of the Misses Weston has been given to Yale College, as below. "The future historian of the abolition of American slavery, on being furnished with the files of the Liberator, will find nearly all the materials he can require to complete his history, on both sides of the question" (Wm. Lloyd Garrison in Lib. 17 : 6). "The establishment of that Museum [the department of selections labelled "The Refuge of Oppression"], we believe, was a strictly original idea with Mr. Garrison. We apprehend that he was the first man who ever set up for show the caricatures which were made of himself, and the stones and dirt with which he had been pelted, and who kept on hand a gibbet on which anybody that pleased might hang him in effigy. The Liberator is one of the few papers which will remain a standard historical authority as to the matter of which it treats, and which will be the substance of our current history. The Liberator will be permanently valuable as containing the very Age and Body of the Time, its Form and Pressure,' as to the controlling element of our destiny, will hold its place on the shelves of public libraries as one of the authentic sources of the history of this day and generation" (Edmund Quincy). LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOL. III. WM. LLOYD GARRISON, at the age of 41. Frontispiece. From a daguerreotype taken in Dublin, in October, 1846, now JOHN ANDERSON COLLINS, at about the age of 35....to face p. 64 NATHANIEL PEABODY ROGERS. .to face p. 120 From the steel engraving prefixed to his Writings; the charm HENRY CLARKE WRIGHT, at about the age of 50 .....to face p. 176 From a daguerreotype now in the possession of Mr. Alfred Webb. CHARLES CALISTUS BURLEIGH, at about the age of 35.. to face p. 226 From a daguerreotype now in the possession of Mr. Alfred Webb. CHARLES FOX HOVEY, at about the age of 45.... to face p. 284 From a daguerreotype. PICTORIAL HEADINGS OF THE LIBERATOR. .to face p. 308 The design of the first (and perhaps of the second also) may with ELIZABETH PEASE, at the age of 44.. to face p. 322 From a daguerreotype now in the possession of Mrs. Henry WM. LLOYD GARRISON, at the age of 47........ to face p. 358 From a daguerreotype taken at Rochester in May, 1852, in a SAMUEL PHILBRICK, at about the age of 65.. ..to face p. 476 From a daguerreotype now in the possession of his family. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Actively accused of infidelity, on both sides of the Atlantic, Garrison restates his religious belief, but attends the closing sessions of the Chardon-Street Convention. He labors dili- gently in the field to revive the anti-slavery organization— with Frederick Douglass at Nantucket, with N. P. Rogers in A monster anti-slavery Address to Irish-Americans, headed by O'Connell, leader of the Repeal agitation in Ireland, tests the pro-slavery spirit of Irish Catholicism in the United States. Garrison comes out openly for the Repeal of the Union of North and South, runs up this banner in the Lib- erator, and launches the debate in the anti-slavery societies. He makes a lecturing tour in Western New York, and falls CHAPTER III.- THE "COVENANT WITH DEATH" (1843)...81-95 After a summer at the water-cure, Garrison makes his home in Boston, and renews with vigor the disunion campaign. He is followed by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in pro- nouncing the Constitution "a covenant with death and an CHAPTER IV.-"NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!" (1844) 96-133 The American Anti-Slavery Society and the New England Convention formally adopt Garrison's disunion doctrine, not Garrison joins in the Massachusetts movement of the Con- science Whigs against the annexation of Texas, but their disunionism oozes away after the event. CHAPTER VI.-THIRD MISSION TO ENGLAND (1846)....150-186 In response to an invitation from the Glasgow Emancipation Society, Garrison revisits Great Britain to join in the anti- slavery crusade against the Free Church of Scotland, for its collusion with American slaveholders. He speaks, with Thompson and Douglass, incessantly throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland; attends the World's Temperance Convention; helps form an Anti-Slavery League; and de- molishes the pro-slavery Evangelical Alliance. He pays a last A too laborious lecture engagement with Frederick Douglass begins in midsummer in Pennsylvania, and ends, at Cleve- land, Ohio, with Garrison's prostration with fever, at the im- CHAPTER VIII.-THE ANTI-SABBATH CONVENTION (1848) 218-243 In view of active Sabbatarian propagandism, and of the constant efforts of the clergy to put obstacles in the way of Sunday abolition meetings, Garrison plans with H. C. Wright an Anti-Sabbath Convention in Boston, draws up the call, Father Mathew, having visited Boston on his temperance mission to the United States, is invited by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to renew his testimony against slavery (as a signer of the Irish Address of 1842) at a celebration of British West India Emancipation. Garrison drafts and presents the invitation, but is met with shuffling and refusal. He exposes this behavior in the Liberator, and makes Father Mathew's Southern tour both easy and difficult. Death of Charles Follen Garrison. Garrison vindicates free discussion |