Mr. Garrison next addressed brief and caustic ‘Cards’2 to Judge Brice, Richard W. Gill, the prosecuting attorney for the State, and Henry Thompson, Todd's agent, which would have appeared in the May number of the Genius but for the timidity of the printers. Two months later,3 Lundy had his own office and printed them, with his usual fearlessness. Still another ‘Card,’ to Francis Todd, he sent to Mr. Buckingham, who promptly published it in the Boston Courier, and again spoke in complimentary terms of the young editor, whose career he had carefully watched from the outset. ‘We take the liberty,’ he added, ‘of prefixing two paragraphs from his private letter, which show, even more happily than the other, the complacency and serenity of his mind, and will teach his opponents a good lesson in the art of enduring misfortune’:
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unquestionably the most perfect specimen he ever produced of his favorite style of versification:
Mr. Garrison next addressed brief and caustic ‘Cards’2 to Judge Brice, Richard W. Gill, the prosecuting attorney for the State, and Henry Thompson, Todd's agent, which would have appeared in the May number of the Genius but for the timidity of the printers. Two months later,3 Lundy had his own office and printed them, with his usual fearlessness. Still another ‘Card,’ to Francis Todd, he sent to Mr. Buckingham, who promptly published it in the Boston Courier, and again spoke in complimentary terms of the young editor, whose career he had carefully watched from the outset. ‘We take the liberty,’ he added, ‘of prefixing two paragraphs from his private letter, which show, even more happily than the other, the complacency and serenity of his mind, and will teach his opponents a good lesson in the art of enduring misfortune’:
Mr. Garrison next addressed brief and caustic ‘Cards’2 to Judge Brice, Richard W. Gill, the prosecuting attorney for the State, and Henry Thompson, Todd's agent, which would have appeared in the May number of the Genius but for the timidity of the printers. Two months later,3 Lundy had his own office and printed them, with his usual fearlessness. Still another ‘Card,’ to Francis Todd, he sent to Mr. Buckingham, who promptly published it in the Boston Courier, and again spoke in complimentary terms of the young editor, whose career he had carefully watched from the outset. ‘We take the liberty,’ he added, ‘of prefixing two paragraphs from his private letter, which show, even more happily than the other, the complacency and serenity of his mind, and will teach his opponents a good lesson in the art of enduring misfortune’:
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