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-dealer of that city. He afterwards removed it to
Philadelphia; and in 1834 made a tour through the South Western
States and Texas, in which he encountered great dangers, and
suffered extreme hardships from sickness and destitution. This
journey was deemed by many an unprofitable and hazardous
experiment, but it proved of great importance. He collected an
immense amount of facts, developing beforehand the grand
slave-holding conspiracy for revolutionizing Texas, and annexing
it to the American Union, as a slave territory. These he
published to the world on his return; and it has justly been
said of him, by John Quincy Adams, that his exertions alone,
under Providence, prevented the annexation of Texas to the
United States. This bold and single-hearted pioneer died not
long since in the State of Illinois, whither he repaired to take