Goodell Anti-Slavery Collection No Presented to Oberlin College (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Goodell Anti-Slavery Collection No Presented to Oberlin College In the autumn of 1829, I associated myself with Benjamin Lundy, to assist in the management of the Genius of Universal Emancipation, a periodical then printed in Baltimore, which he had conducted for a period of ten years in the midst of slavery, with a fearlessness, fidelity and zeal, that must ever place that remarkable man in the first rank of the benefactors of mankind. During the time of our connection, (about six months,) the editorial responsibility principally rested upon myself, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Lundy. At that period, my vision as to the inexcusableness of slavery was clear, though otherwise as to the real character and tendency of the American Colonization Society. Since I have had the charge of the Liberator, I have been freely branded as a madman and incendiary, and my language has been deemed harsh and violent; but if any person will turn to a file of the Genius of Universal Emancipation, he will discover that I was not less denunciatory and fanatical in 1829, than I am in 1834. But the moral sense of the nation was then so torpid, that my most impassioned appeals and vehement rebukes excited little attention, and there was not sufficient interest in the subject of slavery among the people, to warrant the continuance of the weekly publication of the paper, after an experiment of six months. This fact is worthy of note, at the present inflammable state of the public mind. I can now rationally account for it. It was not until I began to expose the abominations of the American Colonization Society, that my life was sought, my character vilified, and my efforts denounced as incendiary. That Society has been the grand instigator of all the violent acts of the southern slaveholders, and of the populace in our principal cities, against those who dare to proclaim the truth of God with all fidelity, and who urge the duty of immediately breaking every yoke and letting every captive go free. The following brief sketch of my trial for an alleged libel on Mr. Francis Todd of Newburyport, was written and published during the time of my incarceration in Baltimore Jail. It is now republished, at the request of many of my friends, and in order to rebut the defamation of my enemies. While I was held in durance vile, for assailing a most cruel traffic in human flesh, my spirit was sustained, nor only by a conscience void of offence, but by the sympathy and regard of wise and good men in all parts of the country. Up to that period, no single incident, connected with the subject of slavery, had ever excited so much attention, or elicited such a spontaneous burst of general indignation. As the news of my imprisonment became extensively known, and the merits of the case understood, not a mail rolled into the city but it brought me consolatory letters from individuals hitherto unknown to me, and periodicals of all kinds, from every section of the Union, (not even excepting the south,) all uniting to give me a triumphant acquittal - all severely reprehending the conduct of Mr. Todd - and all regarding my trial as a mockery of justice. Indeed, I was in danger of being lifted up beyond measure, even in prison, by excessive panegyric and extraordinary sympathy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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