his mother, in 1815, serving as a chore-boy, and he had
visited her just before her death, in 1823. He took leave of Boston in
the fall of 1829, after having acted as the orator of the day, July 4th,
in Park Street church, and surprised his hearers by the boldness of his
utterances on the subject of Slavery. The causes of his imprisonment at
Baltimore scarcely need to be repeated. For an alleged "gross and
malicious libel" on a townsman (of Newburyport) whose ship was engaged
in the coastwise slave-trade, and whom he accordingly denounced in the
"_Genius_," he was tried and convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of
$50 and costs. The cell in which he was confined for forty-nine days,
and from which he was liberated only by the spontaneous liberality of
Arthur Tappan, a perfect stranger to him, he had the satisfaction of
reseeking, after the close of the war, in company with Judge Bond, but
the prison had been removed.

Compelled to part company with Lundy, to whom he has ever owned his
moral indebtedness, Mr. Garrison at length started in Boston, in January
1831, his "_Liberator_" with little else besides his "dauntless spirit
and a press." The difficulties which beset the birth of this paper were
never entirely overcome, and its publication was attended, through all
the thirty-five years of its existence, with constant struggle and
privation, and with personal labor, at the printer's case, and over the
forms, which only an iron constitution could have endured. The
"_Liberator_" was the organ of the editor alone, and he gave room in it
to the numerous reforms which were, in his mind, only subordinate to
abolition. In 1865 the last volume was issued, Mr. Garrison having
already, in May, withdrawn from the American Anti-slavery Society, which
he had helped to found, in 1833, and of which, as he drew up the
Declaration of Sentiments, he may be supposed to have known something of
the original aims and proper duration.

In September, 1834, Mr. Garrison was married to Helen Eliza, daughter of
the venerable philanthropist, George Benson, of Providence, R.I., who
had, even in the previous century, been an active member of a combined
anti-slavery and freedmen's aid society in that city. In October, 1835,
occurred the Boston riot, led by "gentlemen of property and standing,"
in which Mr. Garrison's life was imperilled, and which made him once
more familiar with the interior of a jail--this time, a place of refuge.
In 1832, he w