Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist

[87] this child of Providence. “After deducting the expenses of traveling,” he goes on to say, “the remainder of the above-named sum was applied in discharging a few of the debts incurred by the unproductiveness of the Genius.”

Garrison returned to Baltimore, but he did not tarry long in that slave-ruled city. Todd's suit against him was tried after his departure, and the jury soothed the Newburyport merchant's wounded pride with a verdict for a thousand dollars. He never attempted, however, to enforce the payment of the same being content probably with the “vindication,” which his legal victory gave him.

Before the reformer left Baltimore he had definitely abandoned the plans looking to a revival of his interest in the Genius. He determined instead to publish a sheet devoted to the abolition of slavery under his sole management and control. This paper he proposed to call the Public Liberator, and to issue from Washington. The prospectus of this journalistic project bearing date, August, 1830, declares in its opening sentence its “primary object” to be “the abolition of slavery, and the moral and intellectual elevation of our colored population.” “I shall spare no efforts,” he pledged himself, “to delineate the withering influence of slavery upon our national prosperity and happiness, its awful impiety, its rapid extension, and its inevitable consequences if it be suffered to exist without hindrance. It will also be my purpose to point out the path of safety, and a remedy for the disease.” This comprehensive and aggressive plan of campaign signalized the rise of an Abolitionism wholly unlike the Abolitionism of any