e same relation to
him, while his life-long friend, Oliver Johnson, has writen the best
concise account of him, in "Appleton's New American Cyclopaedia."

Mr. Garrison (the Cyclopaedia is, on this point, in error) was born
December 12, 1804, in Newburyport, Mass., his father, Abijah Garrison,
being a ship-captain, trading with the West Indies, and his mother,
Fanny Lloyd, a woman of remarkable beauty, as well as piety and force of
character. Intemperate habits led the husband and father from home to a
solitary and obscure end, leaving his family entirely dependent. William
(or as he was always called, Lloyd), was the youngest but one of five
children, and had not done with his schooling before he began to
contribute to his own support; at first in Lynn, where he was set at
shoemaking, at the age of eleven; afterwards in Newburyport, and
finally, in 1818, at Haverhill, where he was apprenticed to a cabinet
maker. Not finding these trades suited to his taste, the same year he
was indentured to Ephraim W. Allen, editor of the "_Newburyport
Herald_," and in the printing-office he completed his education, so far
as he was to have any, with such early success, as soon to be an
acceptable contributor to his employer's paper, while the authorship of
his articles was still his own secret. As soon as his apprenticeship
came to a close, in 1826, he became proprietor of the "_Free Press_," in
his native city, but the paper failed of support. Seeking work as a
journeyman, in Boston, he was engaged in 1827 to edit, in the interest
of "total abstinence," the "_National Philanthropist,"_ the first paper
of its kind ever published. On a change of proprietors in 1828, he was
induced to join a friend in Bennington, Vt., in publishing the "_Journal
of the Times_," which advocated the election of John Quincy Adams for
president, besides being devoted to peace, temperance, anti-slavery and
other reforms. In this town, Mr. Garrison began his agitation of the
subject of Slavery, "in consequence of which there was transmitted to
Congress an anti-slavery memorial, more numerously signed than any
similar paper previously submitted to that body." It was in Bennington,
too, that he received from Benjamin Lundy, who had met him the previous
year at his boarding-house in Boston, an invitation to go to Baltimore,
and aid him in editing the "_Genius of Universal Emancipation_."

Baltimore was no strange city to Mr. Garrison. Thither he had
accompanied