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 different parts of the State. He assisted in forming several anti-slavery societies, and, finally arriving at Baltimore, found himself very "coolly" received. His articles against the domestic slave trade so exasperated the Baltimore slave-dealers, that he was brutally assaulted in the streets, and at last compelled to leave the city. In 1826 there were 140 anti-slavery societies, 106 of which were in the Southern States. Speaking approvingly of a resolution of an Ohio anti-slavery society, that it would support no persons for office who were not opposed to slavery, Benjamin Lundy urged that it was a great mistake to think that the Free States had nothing to do with slavery—they guaranteed the oppression of the colored man. In 1828 Lundy went into the Eastern States; at Boston he could not hear of one Abolitionist resident there. In the house where he boarded he met William Lloyd Garrison, who aided him in getting up meetings. Lundy then visited New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, and New York, travelling most of the time on foot, and delivering forty-three anti-slavery addresses on his way. Some time after he persuaded Lloyd Garrison to come and take charge of the Genius, which was changed from a monthly to a weekly journal, and conducted in the interest of temperance, emancipation, and peace. Lloyd Garrison's attacks on the domestic slave trade, and the conduct of a New-England ship-master in taking a cargo of slaves to the New Orleans' Market, led to his prosecution, trial, and imprisonment. Benjamin Lundy was himself persecuted, and so much outrage and violence were offered him that he was compelled to leave the city and remove his paper to Washington. The Genius failing, he started another in Philadelphia, which was afterwards taken up by J. G. Whittier, the Quaker poet, under the name of the Pennsylvania Freeman. Lundy then went west, and again tried to bring out his paper, but was attacked by fever and died at the age of fifty-one. In ten years—from 1820 to 1830—he travelled 25,000 miles, 5,000 of these on foot. He visited nineteen states, and delivered more than 200 lectures. Travelling in this way he printed his paper wherever he happened to be. He carried with him the type "heading," "column rules," etc., and brought out the Genius from any office he could. Sometimes he paid for its publication by working as a journeyman printer, and at other times supported himself by working at his saddler's trade.

The name of William Lloyd Garrison is indelibly written on the pages of the story of the abolition struggle. So great, so important was the part he played that an account, however slight, of the slave struggle in America would be of but little worth if it did not contain his name. W. L. Garrison was born in Massachusetts in 1804, was taught printing and began editing at the age of twenty-one. He edited many different papers in various towns, but finally, in 1831, he brought out the Liberator,