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...LLOYD K. GARRISON New York City...
...morning last week, Westerling's men rolled out of the mountains into Bandung (pop. about 150,000). Six hundred strong, they marched up the main streets, shot a few Republican soldiers, quickly took over the city. Thousands of Dutch troops garrisoned in Bandung stood by and did nothing. The Dutch garrison commander, Major General E. Engles, told Westerling's raiders to get out. They left quickly...
...Will Be Heard." Garrison became an abolitionist hero in 1830 when, as a young Baltimore editor, he denounced a slave trader in print. Fined $50 and costs for his "gross and malicious libel," he went to jail because he lacked the money. In jail he. wrote a thundering pamphlet about his case-and his career as a reformer had begun...
...slave owners knew an enemy when they saw one. Georgia's legislature offered $5,000 for Garrison's arrest and conviction "under the laws of the State." Mississippi slave owners made up a purse for his capture. Georgetown, D.C. passed a law forbidding Negroes to read his paper. Garrison was hated in Boston too: he kept harping on the guilt of northern ship owners for transporting the Negroes in the first place. Finally, the free Negroes of Boston organized to protect him; each night a bodyguard, armed with cudgels, trailed him home. Even so, in 1835 he came...
Aristocrat in Politics. A witness of this riot was a tall, fair-haired young lawyer who, it was generally agreed, had a brilliant career before him. Wendell Phillips, shocked by the mob violence, became interested in Garrison's movement. His family thought him mad. When he threw himself into the abolition crusade they tried to have him committed as a lunatic...