began to write articles on the subject for the Philathropist, a paper published at Mt. Pleasant by a Quaker named Charles Osborn—the first publication in this country to advocate immediate emancipation.[1] Osborn having sold his paper, Lundy, with no further encouragement than that offered by its list of subscribers, decided to start another anti-slavery paper at Mt. Pleasant. He walked ten miles to Steubenville with the manuscript, and returned on foot, carrying on his back the entire edition of the first number of the Genius of Universal Emancipation.
It was while touring the country in search of new subscribers that he met, in Boston, William Lloyd Garrison, then a young man of twenty-three. Garrison, after learning to set type in the office of the Newburyport Herald, had gone to Boston to act as sub-editor of the National Philanthropist, the first temperance paper in the United States. Later he began editing a paper at Bennington called the Journal of the Times, an anti-slavery and temperance advocate. Lundy proposed that the two should join forces, which they did at Baltimore, where the anti-slavery sentiment was very strong, and in September, 1829, the publication of the Genius was resumed.
By this time many out-and-out anti-slavery publications had been started. Some of these were: The Philanthropist, first published in 1817; The Emancipator, (Tennessee, 1819); The Genius of Universal Emancipation, (1821); The Abolition Intelligencer, (Kentucky, 1822); The Edwardsville Spectator and the Illinois Intelligencer, 1822 and 1823 respectively; The African Observer, (Philadelphia, 1826); Freedom's Journal, (New York, 1827); The National Philanthropist, (Boston, 1826); The Investigator, (Providence, 1827); The Free
- ↑ McMaster, v, 200.
