These events brought to a crisis the publication of the Genius of
Universal Emancipation. The editors now parted company. Again
Lundy moved the office of the paper, this time to Washington,
D.C., but it soon became a peripatetic monthly, printed wherever
the editor chanced to be. In 1836 Lundy began the issue of an
anti-slavery paper in Philadelphia, called the National Inquirer,
and with this was merged the Genius of Universal Emancipation. He
was preparing to resume the issue of his original paper under the
old title, in La Salle County, Illinois, when he was overtaken by
death on August 22, 1839.

Here was a man without education, without wealth, of a slight
frame, not at all robust, who had undertaken, singlehanded and
without the shadow of a doubt of his ultimate success, to abolish
American slavery. He began the organization of societies which
were to displace the anti-slavery societies of the previous
century. He established the first paper devoted exclusively to
the cause of emancipation. He foresaw that the question of
emancipation must be carried into politics and that it must
become an object of concern to the general Government as well as
to the separate States. In the early part of his career he found
the most congenial association and the larger measure of
effective support south of Mason and Dixon's Line, and in this
section were the greater number of the abolition societies which
he organized. During the later years of his life, as it was
becoming increasingly difficult in the South to maintain a public
anti-slavery propaganda, he transferred his chief activities to
the North. Lundy serves as a connecting link between the earlier
and the later anti-slavery movements. Eleven years of his early