eat of dissolving the Union, which in the very
outset of the Government had extorted from the Convention which
framed the Constitution, a clause legalizing the Foreign Slave
Trade for twenty years. The admission of Missouri as a slave
State was a fatal concession to the South: the abolitionists
became disheartened: their societies lingered on a few years
longer, and nearly all were extinct previous to 1830. The
colonization scheme had in the mean time, in despite of the
earnest and almost unanimous rejection of it by the colored
people, obtained a strong hold on the public mind, and had
especially enlisted the favorable regard of some of the leading
influences of the Society of Friends. Here and there over the
country, might be found still a faithful laborer, like Elisha
Tyson, of Baltimore, Thomas Shipley, of Philadelphia, and Moses
Brown, of Rhode Island, holding up the good old testimony
against prejudice and oppression in the midst of a wide spread
apostacy. I should mention in this connection, Benjamin Lundy, a
member of the Society of Friends, who devoted his whole life to
the cause of freedom, travelling on foot thousands of miles,
visiting every part of the slave States, Mexico and the Haytian
Republic. About the year 1828, he visited Boston, and enlisted
the sympathies of William Lloyd Garrison, then a very young man.
Not long after, he was joined by the latter as an associate
editor of _The Genius of Universal Emancipation_, an
anti-slavery paper which he had established at Baltimore. After
a residence in Baltimore of about six months, Garrison was
thrown into prison for an alledged libel upon a northern
slave-trader, whence he was liberated on the payment of his fine
by the benevolent Arthur Tappan. Lundy continued his paper some
time longer in Baltimore, where he was subjected to brutal
personal violence from the notorious Woolfolk, the great
slave-

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