V

CHAPTER I.

The Father of the Man 11

CHAPTER II.

The Man Hears a Voice: Samuel, Samuel! 38

CHAPTER III.

The Man Begins his Ministry 69

CHAPTER IV.

The Hour and the Man 92

CHAPTER V.

The Day of Small Things 110

CHAPTER VI.

The Heavy World is Moved 118

CHAPTER VII.

Master Strokes 133

CHAPTER VIII.

Colorphobia 157

CHAPTER IX.

Agitation and Repression 170

CHAPTER X.

Between the Acts 192

CHAPTER XI.

Mischief Let Loose 208

CHAPTER XII.

Flotsam and Jetsam 233

CHAPTER XIII.

The Barometer Continues to Fall 242

CHAPTER XIV.

Brotherly Love Fails, and Ideas Abound 263

CHAPTER XV.

Random Shots 292

CHAPTER XVI.

The Pioneer Makes a New and Startling Departure 306

CHAPTER XVII.

As in a Looking Glass 319

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Turning of a Long Lane 335

CHAPTER XIX.

Face to Face 356

CHAPTER XX.

The Death-Grapple 370

CHAPTER XXI.

The Last 385

Index 397

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

CHAPTER I.

THE FATHER OF THE MAN.

William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, December
10, 1805. Forty years before, Daniel Palmer, his great-grandfather,
emigrated from Massachusetts and settled with three sons and a daughter
on the St. John River, in Nova Scotia. The daughter's name was Mary, and
it was she who was to be the future grandmother of our hero. One of the
neighbors of Daniel Palmer was Joseph Garrison, who was probably an
Englishman. He was certainly a bachelor. The Acadian solitude of five
hundred acres and Mary Palmer's charms proved too much for the
susceptible heart of Joseph Garrison. He wooed and won her, and on his
thirtieth birthday she became his wife. The bride herself was but
twenty-three, a woman of resources and of presence of mind, as s