of intemperance, slavery, and war. A mighty human
love had begun to flow inward and over him. And
as the tide steadily rose it swallowed and drowned
all the egoism of self and race in the altruism of
an all-embracing humanity. When an apprentice
in the office of the Newburyport Herald, and
writing on the subject of South American affairs he
grew hot over the wrongs suffered by American vessels
at Valparaiso and Lima. He was for finishing “with
cannon what cannot be done in a conciliatory and equitable
manner, where justice demands such proceedings.”
This was at seventeen when he was a boy with the thoughts
of a boy. Six years later he is a man who has
looked upon the sorrows of men. His old boy-world
is far behind him, and the ever-present sufferings
of his kind are in front of him. War now is no
longer glorious, for it adds immeasurably to the sum
of human misery. War ought to be abolished with
intemperance and slavery. And this duty he began
to utter in the ears of his country. “The
brightest traits in the American character will derive
their luster, not from the laurels picked from the
field of blood, not from the magnitude of our navy
and the success of our arms,” he proclaimed,
“but from our exertions to banish war from the
earth, to stay the ravages of intemperance among all
that is beautiful and fair, to unfetter those who have
been enthralled by chains, which we have forged, and
to spread the light of knowledge and religious liberty,
wherever darkness and superstition reign.... The
struggle is full of sublimity, the conquest embraces
the world.” Lundy himself did not fully
appreciate the immense gain, which his cause had made
in the conversion of Garrison into an active friend
of the slave. Not at once certainly. Later
he knew. The discovery of a kindred spirit in
Boston exerted probably no little influence in turning
for the second time his indefatigable feet toward
that city. He made it a second visit in July,
1828, where again he met Garrison. His experience
with the ministers did not deter him from repeating
the horrible tale wherever he could get together an
audience. This time he secured his first public
hearing in Boston. It was in the Federal Street
Baptist Church. He spoke not only on the subject
of slavery itself, the growth of anti-slavery societies,
but on a new phase of the general subject, viz.,
the futility of the Colonization Society as an abolition
instrument. Garrison was present, and treasured
up in his heart the words of his friend. He did
not forget how Lundy had pressed upon his hearers the
importance of petitioning Congress for the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia, as we shall
see further on. But poor Lundy was unfortunate
with the ministers. He got this time not the cold
shoulder alone but a clerical slap in the face as
well. He had just sat down when the pastor of
the church, Rev. Howard Malcolm, uprose in wrath and
inveighed against any intermeddling of the North with