to proclaim the doctrine of immediate emancipation
to the slaves of America, and on that account an object
of hatred to the slave-holding interest of the country,
and living for years with his life in danger, he is
justly regarded by all, as the leader of the Anti-Slavery
movement in the New World. Mr. Garrison is at
the present time but little more than forty-five years
of age, and of the middle size. He has a high
and prominent forehead, well developed, with no hair
on the top of the head, having lost it in early life;
with a piercing eye, a pleasant, yet anxious countenance,
and of a most loveable disposition; tender, and blameless
in his family affections, devoted to his friends; simple
and studious, upright, guileless, distinguished, and
worthy, like the distinguished men of antiquity, to
be immortalized by another Plutarch. How many
services never to be forgotten, has he not rendered
to the cause of the slave, and the welfare of mankind!
As a speaker, he is forcible, clear, and logical,
yet he will not rank with the many who are less known.
As a writer, he is regarded as one of the finest in
the United States, and certainly the most prominent
in the Anti-Slavery cause. Had Mr. Garrison wished
to serve himself, he might, with his great talents,
long since, have been at the head of either of the
great political parties. Few men can withstand
the allurements of office, and the prize-money that
accompanies them. Many of those who were with
him fifteen years ago, have been swept down with the
current of popular favour, either in Church or State.
He has seen a Cox on the one hand, and a Stanton on
the other, swept away like so much floating wood before
the tide. When the sturdiest characters gave way,
when the finest geniuses passed one after another
under the yoke of slavery, Garrison stood firm to
his convictions, like a rock that stands stirless amid
the conflicting agitation of the waves. He is
not only the friend and advocate of freedom with his
pen and his tongue, but to the oppressed of every
clime he opens his purse, his house, and his heart:
yet he is not a man of money. The fugitive slave,
fresh from the whips and chains, who is turned off
by the politician, and experiences the cold shoulder
of the divine, finds a bed and a breakfast under the
hospitable roof of Mr. Lloyd Garrison.
The party of which he is the acknowledged head, is one of no inconsiderable influence in the United States. No man has more bitter enemies or stauncher friends than he. There are those among his friends who would stake their all upon his veracity and integrity; and we are sure that the coloured people throughout America, bond and free, in whose cause he has so long laboured, will, with one accord, assign the highest niche in their affection to the champion of universal emancipation. Every cause has its writers and its orators. We have drawn a hasty and imperfect sketch of the greatest writer in the Anti-Slavery field: we shall now call attention to the most