Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2

[84] customary debate at the close of each volume of the Liberator had ended in 1835 in Garrison and Knapp¹ dissolving their partnership, and the latter (to his ultimate sorrow) assuming all pecuniary liabilities and becoming sole publisher of the paper. The editor's salary was otherwise provided for. During his stay in Brooklyn, Charles Burleigh, more than any one, acted as his locum tenens; and as Mr. Garrison's relaxed and ailing bodily condition kept him from contributing regularly to the paper, the place was no sinecure. His associates in the Anti-Slavery Office and in the Board of Managers deplored his absence and pressed him to return. He admitted the inconvenience of it, and its injurious effect upon the interests of the Liberator; but it was not until the end of September that he again became a Bostonian, and ceased to be a self-banished man.² Still, though out of health and at a distance, he continued to direct and advise:

Mr. Garrison to Henry Benson, at Boston.

Brooklyn, January 16, 1836.

³ I have almost grown tired in waiting for a copy of Channing's second edition. If it should not come next week, I must ‘fire off’ my gun.

The subscription of Mr. Chapman's father, towards liquidating our debt, is as generous as it is unexpected, and manifests a thorough-going anti-slavery spirit. I am thankful to hear that the Committee are actively endeavoring to get the whole sum made up as fast as possible, because everything in such a case depends upon despatch. Whoever else may be called upon to aid, I hope friend Dole, of Hallowell, will not be appealed to⁴ again, as he has already on various occasions contributed more liberally to the support of the paper than any other person in like circumstances. I think each one who is requested to give anything should be impressed with the fact, that he is not paying for ‘a dead horse’—for it is not only participating in the credit that may attach to the Liberator, for what it has done in waking up