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of America.
Nothing he ever did was more able.
Nothing that Frederick the Great, Washington or Napoleon ever did in the field of war was more brilliant than this political foray of Garrison, then at the age of twenty-seven, upon the keyposition and jugular vein of slavery.
Among the immediate consequences of Garrison's pamphlet on colonization was the contest over Lane Seminary at Cincinnati, a contest which became the storm center of Abolition influence for a year, and qualified public opinion ever after.
I quote part of the account given by Oliver Johnson from his well-known volume on Garrison and his time — from which many of these illustrations are taken.
Johnson was a right-hand man of Garrison's and at times was editor and co-editor of the Liberator. He gave up his life to Anti-slavery, and is a fair example of the sort of man who came into existence, as if by miracle, when Garrison stamped his foot in 1830.
“The founding of Lane Seminary, at the gateway of the great West, was a part of this plan, to extend the influence of Orthodoxy, and Dr. Beecher,1 being generally ”
1 Rev. Lyman Beecher, father of Henry Ward Beecher and of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Boston, the. Atlantic Monthly. Press, 1921.
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