CHAPTER III.--WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.

Mr. Garrison's Birth and Parents--His Mother--Her Conversion --His Boyhood--Apprenticed to a Printer--First Anti-Slavery Address--Advice to Dr. Beecher--Benjamin Lundy--Garrison Goes to Baltimore--First Battle with Slavery--In Jail-- First Number of the Liberator--Threats and Rage from the South --The American Anti-Slavery Society--First Visit to England --The Era of Mob Violence--The Respectable Boston Mob-- Mr. Garrison's Account--Again in Jail--The Massachusetts Legislature Uncivil to the Abolitionists--Logical Vigor of the Slaveholders--Garrison's Disunionism--Denounces the Church --Liberality of the Liberator--The Southerners' own Testimony --Mr. Garrison's Bland Manners--His Steady Nerves--His use of Language--Things by their Right Names--Abolitionist "Hard Language;" Garrison's Argument on it--Protest for Woman's Rights--The Triumph of his Cause--"The Liberator" Discontinued--Second Visit to England--Letter to Mrs. Stowe. 154