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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 3: Apprenticeship.—1818-1825. (search)
at each annual election, he should also take an interest in politics, and, imbibing the prevailing sentiment of his locality, become an ardent Federalist. He studied the writings of Fisher Ames, and was a fervent admirer of Timothy Pickering and Harrison Gray Otis. While yet in his teens he wielded his pen in defence of the two latter when they were under fire and their political fortunes under a cloud; but his first attempt at writing for the press was not in a political direction. In May, 1822, he wrote, in a disguised hand, and sent through the post-office his first communication to the Herald, under the nom de guerre of An May 21, 1822. Old Bachelor. It was entitled Breach of the Marriage Promise, and professed to be the reflections of a bachelor on reading the recent verdict in a breach of promise case in Boston, by which a young man who had kept company with a girl for two years and then refused to marry her, was fined seven hundred and fifty dollars. While freely conced