but revive and continue the work of the Quakers and other non-
slaveholding classes of the revolutionary period. Birney was and
continued to be a typical slaveholding abolitionist of the
earlier period. Garrison began his work as a disciple of Lundy,
whom he followed in the condemnation of the African colonization
scheme, though he went farther and rejected every form of
colonization. Garrison likewise repudiated every plan for gradual
emancipation and proclaimed the duty of immediate and
unconditional liberation of the slaves.

The first number of the Liberator contained an Address to the
Public, which sounded the keynote of Garrison's career. "I shall
contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave
population--I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as
justice on this subject--I do not wish to think, or speak, or
write with moderation--I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I
will not retreat a single inch, and I WILL BE HEARD!"

The New England Anti-Slavery Society, of which Garrison was the
chief organizer, was in essential harmony with the societies
which Lundy had organized in other sections. Its first address to
the public in 1833 distinctly recognized the separate States as
the sole authority in the matter of emancipation within their own
boundaries. Through moral suasion, eschewing all violence and
sedition, its authors proposed to secure their object. In the
spirit of civil and religious liberty and by appealing to the
Declaration of Independence, the Liberty party of 1840 and 1844,
by the Freesoil party of 1848, and later by the Republican party,
and that nearly all of the abolitionists continued to be faithful
adherents to those principles, are sufficient proof of the