[54] materials which he has so industriously accumulated,1 may also obtain a safe conveyance! . . . How many new subscribers has the Liberator received since the riot up to the present time? and what is proposed as to its continuance another year? I wish it could be enlarged, safely— but it would be hazardous to make the experiment. The engraving we will lay aside, and substitute a plain head—The Liberator.2 This alteration will admit of more reading in the paper. Let the present motto remain—we cannot have a better, although I made it. There's egotism for you!3 I long to hear that friend Knapp has succeeded in hiring a printing-office, especially as the year is so near its close; for I know it must be exceedingly vexatious to be under the necessity of resorting to other printing establishments. I send a letter to your care for bro. H. C. Wright, which I wish him to receive as soon as convenient. He is a valuable acquisition to our cause—a fearless, uncompromising and zealous Christian. It strengthens and animates me to hear that bro. Phelps is to4 remain in Boston. You know how highly I appreciate his worth, and what unwavering confidence I place in his judgment, integrity and devotion. His presence, with bro. Wright's co-operation, will make my absence from the city more excusable . . . . I perceive by the Christian Register that Dr. Channing has at last given publicity to his thoughts on slavery. Send me the work in the next bundle of papers, for I am anxious to review it. The extract from it in the Register is singularly weak and inconclusive—but I suppose it is the most rotten spot in the volume, else Prof. Willard would not have quoted it as the5 soundest. So, it seems, because I suffered a communication to go into the Liberator, reprimanding the Mayor for his pusillanimous conduct, our friend E. M. P. Wells6 has captiously ordered his paper to be stopped. Very well—‘Good-by.’ The pretext is most ridiculous. See what it is to have respect unto persons! Surely, ‘An Abolitionist’ and ‘Another Abolitionist’—two
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1 Six volumes of extracts from Northern and Southern papers, besides tracts, volumes, placards, etc. (Lib. 5.195). Chap. I. 1835.
2 This change, happily, was not made.
3 Ante, 1.219.
5 Sidney Willard; ante, 1.470.
6 An Episcopal clergyman, Principal of the Boston Asylum and Farm School, of which Mayor Lyman was President and a liberal benefactor (see Josiah Quincy's “Figures of the past,” p. 5).
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