Though not yet sufficient to cover all expenses, the 1 circulation of the Liberator is, we believe, as extensive as that of any other anti-slavery journal in this country; and it gives us great satisfaction to state, (and we presume the information will not be less gratifying to our numerous friends), that, notwithstanding the multiplication of other abolition papers, and the semi-abolition character which, we rejoice to say, many of the political and some of the religious newspapers are assuming —notwithstanding the ungenerous attempt, on the part of certain professed abolitionists, to injure if they could not suppress the Liberator, by seeking an unprovoked and acrimonious sectarian quarrel with it—our subscription-list has steadily augmented during the present year, and particularly for the last six months, with voluntary subscribers. ‘The pecuniary liabilities of the Liberator, as to the printing department, will hereafter be assumed by the publisher; and as it is doubtful whether (aside from the editor's stipend) he will be enabled to meet more than his current expenses, the editor will look for a bare support for himself and family to other, though as yet unknown, sources. The same good Providence which has thus far sustained him will still supply his necessities, if he fail not in well-doing.’2
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conclusions as to the second coming of Christ and the doctrine of ‘holiness.’
But Noyes's scheme of human regeneration involved a species of church organization, with the Bible as interpreted by himself for authority— in other words, had a purely sectarian basis.
How distinct this was from Mr. Garrison's method, will appear later on.
We return to the prospectus, in which the following passage regards the material outlook of the Liberator for the coming year.
It was prefaced by a fresh allusion to the disadvantage of competition with the Emancipator, sustained by the Parent Society, and the Friend of Man, sustained by the New York State Society, and consequently afforded at a lower rate:
2 For example, on New Year's day, 1837, Mr. Garrison received the following letter from Miss Ann Greene Chapman, sister of the Treasurer of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, enclosing one hundred dollars:
‘much esteemed friend: My father has given me the pleasant commission of offering you in his name the congratulations of the New Year and of requesting your acceptance of the enclosed as a slight proof of the high regard he feels for your noble devotion to the cause of human freedom. Whilst we slept over the woes of the slave and the endangered rights of the freeman, you were awake and active, sounding the note of warning which has at last roused the entire nation. We thank you for the welcome you have given us to be fellow-laborers with you in this holy cause. May this year be one of cheerful self-denial, of energetic action, of successful exertion, to us all. Then, whether sickness or health, joy or sorrow, life or death, be our allotted portion, it will be a Happy New Year.’ Death was the allotted portion of the lamented writer of these lines, in the short space of three months, and, as she made her will on February 1, must have been foreseen when writing to Mr. Garrison. She made liberal bequests to the American A. S. Society and to the Boston Female A. S. Society (Lib. 7: 59). A poetic tribute to her memory, from the pen of Mr. Garrison, dated Boston, Oct. 27, 1837, was published in the Liberty Bell for 1839.
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