was a sort of forerunner, so far as the training in intelligent and effective agitation was concerned, of the Genius of Universal Emancipation and of the Liberator.  One cannot read his sketch of the progress made by the temperance reform, from which I have already quoted, and published by him in the Philanthropist in April, 1828, without being struck by the strong similitude of the temperance to the anti-slavery movement in their beginnings.  “When this paper was first proposed,” the young temperance editor records, “it met with a repulsion which would have utterly discouraged a less zealous and persevering man than our predecessor.  The moralist looked on doubtfully—­the whole community esteemed the enterprise desperate.  Mountains of prejudice, overtopping the Alps, were to be beaten down to a level—­strong interest, connected by a thousand links, severed—­new habits formed; Every house, and almost every individual, in a greater or less degree, reclaimed.  Derision and contumely were busy in crushing this sublime project in its birth—­coldness and apathy encompassed it on every side—­but our predecessor, nevertheless, went boldly forward with a giant’s strength and more than a giant’s heart—­conscious of difficulties and perils, though not disheartened, armed with the weapons of truth—­full of meekness, yet certain of a splendid victory—­and relying on the promises of God for the issue.”  What an inestimable object-lesson to Garrison was the example of this good man going forth singlehanded to do battle with one of the greatest evils of the age!  It was not numerical strength, but the faith of one earnest soul that is able in the world of ideas and human passions to remove mountains out of the way of the onward march of mankind.  This truth, we may be sure, sunk many fathoms deep into the mind of the young moralist.  And no wonder.  For the results of two years agitation and seed sowing were of the most astonishing character.  “The change which has taken place in public sentiment,” he continues, “is indeed remarkable ... incorporated as intemperance was, and still is, into our very existence as a people....  A regenerating spirit is everywhere seen; a strong impulse to action has been given, which, beginning in the breasts of a few individuals, and then affecting villages, and cities, and finally whole States, has rolled onward triumphantly through the remotest sections of the republic.  As union and example are the levers adopted to remove this gigantic vice, temperance societies have been rapidly multiplied, many on the principle of entire abstinence, and others making it a duty to abstain from encouraging the distillation and consumption of spirituous liquors.  Expressions of the deep abhorrence and sympathy which are felt in regard to the awful prevalence of drunkenness are constantly emanating from legislative bodies down to various religious conventions, medical associations, grand juries, etc., etc.  But nothing has more