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BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO - 785 CHAPTER VIII. THE PRESS OF BELMONT COUNTY. ABOUT the beginning of the year 1812 a paper called the Belmont Repository was started at St. Clairsville by Alexander Armstrong. The Repository had four columns to the page and was about one-fourth the present size of the Gazette. In 1818 we find the paper still under the management of Mr. Armstrong, but in August of that year its name was changed to the Belmont journal. December 20, 1823, the name was again changed —this time called the Western Post,. and Robert H. Miller became associated with Mr. Armstrong in the publication of the paper. The paper continued to be printed the same size and form as when started in 1812. About the 1st of January, 1825, Mr. Armstrong retired and R. H. Miller became sole editor and proprietor. About this time the name of the paper was changed again, and it became the SI. Clairsville Gazette. The paper was also enlarged at this time to five columns on each page. We have been unable to ascertain the exact time when the paper first became known as the Gazette, but we believe that Mr. Miller gave it that name upon assuming control in January, 1825. Mr. Miller continued to publish the paper until January, 1829, when George W. Manypenny became associated with him. On January 23, 1830, the Gazette was enlarged to a six-column paper. It was then the only democratic paper published in the congressional district, and the only one in any of the river counties from Marietta to Steubenville. August 27, 1830, Miller & Manypenny dissolved partnership, Mr. Miller retiring, and Mr. Manypenny continuing the publication of the paper until March 9, 1833, when it was sold to Messrs. John Y. and Jacob Glessner. Sometime in the year 1837 the Glessners sold out to Maj. John Irons. March 10, 1838, the Gazette passed into the hands of Dr. John Dunham, whose editorial connection with it lasted twelve y ears, ending March 15, 1850. February 23, 1839, Dr. Dunham enlarged the Gazette and made it seven columns to the page. From February 23, 1839, to June 25, 1841, the paper was printed by Gill, Heaton & Co., and from the latter date to February 26, 1847, by Heaton & Gressinger. During all this time, however, Dr. Dunham had editorial control of the Gazette. In February, 1847, Dr. Dunham purchased a printing office of his own, and 0n the 26th of that month he became both editor and publisher of the paper. From March 1, 1847 to March 2, 1849, Alexander Patton was assistant editor. February 26, 1847, Messrs. John H. Heaton and Stephen Gressinger began the publication of another democratic paper in St. Clairsville, called The Citizen. This paper was published two years. 50-B 786 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. and then (March 2, 1849) it was merged with the Gazette, the consolidated paper being called the Gazette and Citizen. Mr. Heaton retired at the time of the consolidation, and Dunham & Gressinger continued in charge of the paper until March 15, 1850, at which time Dr. Dunham severed his connection with it. Stephen Gressinger was editor and publisher then until February 21, 1856, when he retired and was succeeded by John H. Heaton, Jaunary 2, 1862. The name of Citizen was dropped and the paper again became known as the St. Clairsville Gazette, which name it has retained to the present time. February 13, 1862, Mr. Heaton sold the paper to Mr. Gressinger, who conducted it for two years, and then. on February 11, 1864, Mr. Heaton purchased it again from Mr. Gressinger. Mr. Heaton then conducted the Gazette to the time of his death, August 23, 1873. Mr. S. Gressinger was then employed to manage the paper, which he did until it came into the hands of the present proprietor. November r, 1873, the Gazette was transferred to Mr.C. N. Gaumer, as editor- and proprietor, who was formerly connected with the Zanesville Signal, as editor. In 1883, Mr. Gaumer sold the Gazette to J. M. Riley, now a practicing attorney of St. Clairsville, who conducted it until September, 1889, when it came into possession of its present owners, Messrs. Milligan & Steenrod. The paper is a nine-column quarto, ably edited and managed, and is considered the organ of the democratic party of the county. It is one of the most valuable plants in eastern Ohio. The St. Clairsville Chronicle. - To give a detailed historical account of the Chronicle and its predecessors is a thing almost impossible. It is probable that its legitimate predecessor was established as early as 1813. If not at the time of its establisment it was a few years later called the National Historian, and in the latter part of twenties and early thirties it was owned and edited by Horace J. Howard. In 1831 Dr. J. G. Affleck, afteward editor of the True Blue, of Bridgeport, bought the Historian, which he edited until 1833, when he sold to David McPherson, by whom it is claimed by some, the name was changed to the Chronicle. By whom it was thereafter owned there is some question, but it is positively known that Wharton Howard, who afterward moved to Iowa, was proprietor, and it is probable that it was from him that Gen. Cowan, now clerk of the district court at Cincinnati, purchased the paper. It was an exponent of the whig party until the advent of the new republican party, since when it has advocated the principles of that party with marked courage and ability. David Thoburn came into possession of the Chronicle some time in the fifties and continued as its editor until 1860, when Col. C. L. Poor- man, the present editor and proprietor of the Bellaire Tribune, became editor and owner. He soon responded to the call of his country for defenders and went to the front, leaving J. B. Longley, a bright, able and versatile newspaper man, in charge. To those who know Mr. Longley it is not necessary to say that it was during his management a bold and fearless advocate of the Union cause. After ten years Col. Poorman sold to Wilkinson & Nichols, from whom the present BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO - 787 proprietor, Mr. W. A. Hunt, purchased the paper in 1872. Since that time he has been constantly in charge, and perhaps no paper in the county bears more plainly the personality of its editor. It is uncompromising in its advocacy of the principles of the republican party, and has by its zealous support added much to the strength of the party in its county. As a writer, Mr. Hunt deserves to be considered among those who have given the press in eastern Ohio its high place in the estimation of the people. The first effort at "periodical literature" at Barnesville was made. by the lady students of Davenport & Adler's "Classical Institute," then held in the old academy building. It was a little paper of four pages, 8x10 inches to the page, and was published weekly during the terms of the institute for the years 1856 and 1857. It was printed at Zanesville, Ohio, and was published by the "Philliphonian Society" of the institute. At first it was called The Gleaner, and the editress was changed every term. Finally it was called the Literary Casket . and had "Excelsior" for its motto, and Miss M. L. Talbot, now Mrs. M. L. Walton, as permanent editress. That little paper crowns with honor every one connected with its career. Judging by the editorials it were a pity that Mrs. Walton did not continue to wield the pen. The Gleaner and Literary Casket were supported by the talents and purse of the lady students of the institute, and were circulated gratis. The Intelligencer. The first newspaper venture in Barnesville was made by E. R. Bartleson & Son, of Wheeling, in June, 1857. It was called The Intelligencer, and was a small twenty-four column journal, and dealt in everything but politics. After the issue of two numbers, the office was sold to George McClelland and Thomas Nichols, who continued its publication one year. In September, 1858, Mr. McClelland resumed its publication, and till June, 1861, the Intelligencer was the very mirror of affairs occurring in this portion of the state. It was well edited and occupied a prominent place in the ranks of country journals. The Enterprise. On the 28th of May, 1866, the first number of the Barnesville Enterprise, a seven-column folio, was published by George McClelland. In October, 1870, the paper was enlarged to twenty- eight columns. In January, 1875, it was changed to a quarto, and enlarged to 31X45 inches. Samuel Price became a partner at this time, and the paper was conducted by McClelland & Price until October, 1877, at which date the latter retired, and Mr. McClelland resumed the management. The files of the Enterprise are replete with interesting matter. In 1878 the present editor and proprietor, Mr. E. P. Lee, became local editor, in which capacity he continued until 1888, when he purchased the paper. The Enterprise is a six-column quarto issued on Wednesday of each week. So crowded have become its columns of late that a two page supplement is now regularly issued. It has a large patronage. Mrs. E. P. Lee is assistant editor. Barnesville Republican, now one of the influential journals of Belmont county, Ohio, was established by Hanlon Brothers & Co. The first issue made its appearance June 14, 1883. It is a nine-column 788 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. folio, and as its name indicates is republican in politics, although it is more especially devoted to the general interests of the community. Mr. W. W., a son of T. T. Hanlon, is the chief editorial writer. Much of the following is taken from former publications. Journalism in Bellaire. - The first periodical appearing from the press in this city was the Bellaire Times. This paper was issued by Robert Duncan, who established the same in 1853. Duncan was succeeded on the Times by Dr. Joseph Gaston, with Dr. M. W. Junkins as local editor. In 1857 the Bellaire Intelligences made its appearance, and was issued only a few months. H. E. Purdy established the Democratic Era, the first number appearing some time in 1858. His office was in the old shoe-factory school building. It lived until 1859 and then suspended. In 1868 Daniel Long published a small paper which he called the Bellaire Advertiser. It lasted until 1870. On the 28th day of April, 1870, the Independent was issued from the press. It was established by a. stock company, and was conducted and edited by John B. Longley, who retained the position as editor, with the exception of two years he spent in the office of county auditor. During this period the paper was edited by the present proprietor and Dr. M. W. Junkins. On the 19th of November, 1877, James F. Anderson purchased the office. In 1880 the Daily Independent, issued every evening, was established. As its name indicates, it is independent in politics, but is neutral on no subject of public interest. Mr. Anderson, the editor and proprietor, is a native of Pultney township, where he spent his early days on a farm, which, perhaps, accounts for the stand he has always taken for the interest and protecti0n of the farmer. Mr. Anderson is also a member of. the Belmont county bar, and enjoys a lucrative practice. He was one of the earliest of his county to advocate the principles of the republican party. As a writer, Mr. Anderson is vigorous, bold and fearless, and woe unto the man or measure upon whom his unsparing lash may fall. Bellaire Tribune. —The Bellaire Tribune was established February 6, 1879, by Col. C. L. Poorman. At the date of its first issue it had a larger bona fide subscription list than any paper in Bellaire. 'This was largely due to the Colonel's popularity in the county, he having edited the St. Clairsville Chronicle for ten years during and after the war. There is now a daily and semi-weekly edition of the Tribune, and both are very largely patronized by subscribers and advertisers. The Evening Daily is a seven-column folio, republican in politics, and is a vigorous exponent of the principles of that party. Col. Poorman is a writer of ability, well informed on all questions of public policy, widely known, and universly respected for his opinions on all questions of party policy. He has been unremitting in his support of all public improvements, and through his paper and otherwise he has done much to improve the material condition of his town and county. The Standard, published by D. W. Leet and John D. Nuzum started in April, 1870, and continued until sometime in 1872. In 1872, Mary E. Hoover established the Belmont City Commercial, but after a few months suspended until January, 1873, when Hoover and Hall issued BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO - 789 the paper. In June of the year following, Miss Hoover again assumed sole charge, employing Will S. Faris as local editor. In January, 1875, the paper was sold to J. J. Clarkson, and in May of the same year he suspended publication. Cochran & Gow purchased the printing material and press of Clarkson, and on the fifth day of February, 1876, issued a neat seven-column paper styled Leader, which is still in successful operation. They added new material and press. On the 1st of July, 1876, John R. Gow purchased his partner's interest, and began the pulbication of a daily called the Daily Leader, which he issued just a week on trial, but Wheeling being so close with its dailies, interfered greatly,. and the experiment in that enterprise was abandoned. Mr. Gow has enlarged the Weekly Leader and otherwise improved it. Charles N. Allen was connected with the paper for a time. In about 1885, the Weekly Herald, was so christened by Lockwood & King, and after a fairly successful existence and frequent changes of ownership, and editorial control, it was sold in January, 1890, to R. C. Meyer, a bright newspaper man formerly connected with the St. Clairsville Gazette. The paper under the management of Mr. Meyer has been improved in every way, and is well printed, newsy, and influential. In September, 1875, the first number of Bric-a-Bric, a monthly literary magazine of eight pages, was published by Will S. Faris and W. C. Warnock. In February of the following year, Mr. Faris sold his interest in the enterprise to his partner, and in a few months afterward discontinued its publication.. In the year 1877, Frank M. Barnes and J. E. Strahl, two practical printers, published a tri-weekly sheet called the Free Press. It succeeded reasonably well, but was only published for a few months, when a disagreement between the proprietors made its suspension necessary. In 1877-8, Ben S. Cowen, a school boy, son of Gen. B. R. Cowen, published a small literary paper called the Amateur journal. It was very popular, on account of the novelty of its publication. The editor did his own printing in leisure hours. In July, 1878, Will S. Faris, at that time principal of the public schools of the Fifth ward, commenced the publication of a forty-column quarto-weekly newspaper called the Phonograph. It met with a fair share of success as a local sheet, and also became somewhat famous abroad for sprightliness and humor. It was continued until some time in 1879, when Mr. Faris left Bellaire to accept the position of associate editor of the Wheeling Daily Register, and the Phonograph was consolidated with Mr. Anderson's Independent. In 1878, Waldemar Bille, M. D., established the Bellaire Star, a Catholic weekly, local in its character. It only existed a very few weeks. The Democrat. - Of the papers now published at Bellaire the Democrat is the youngest, having first made its appearance March 23, 1888, with W. C. Warnock, above mentioned as proprietor and editor. Mr. Warnock is a descendant of the Warnock family of Smith township, mentioned elsewhere in this work, and is familiar with all the work- 790 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. ing of a newspaper office, having filled almost every position from " devil" to editor. The Democrat is an eight-page five-column sheet, issued Friday of each week. Martin's Ferry. Two attempts were made to establish a newspaper here previous to 1872, both of which failed. About 1849, David S. Welling commenced the publication of the American Enterprise, which he published at Martin's Ferry and Bridgeport; the office, according to the best information at hand, being alternately located at both places, but its publication was unremunerative, and it was abandoned. In 1871, the business men and citizens, feeling the need of a home organ, formed a joint stock company known as the " Martin's Ferry Printing and Publishing Company." This company commenced on the 1st of May, 1872, the publication of a six-column folio called the Martin's Ferry Commercial, with Mr. Barr, of Wheeling, as editor and publisher. About the 1st of December, the establishment was sold to John J. Ashenhurst and John Clauser. This firm was short-lived, Mr. Clauser at the end of a few months retiring. Mr. Ashenhurst made material changes, first increasing the size to a seven-column folio, and changing the name to the Ohio Valley News, and again enlarging to a six-column quarto, and making it the organ of the prohibition wing of the temperance people of eastern Ohio. Mr. Ashenhurst on the 1st of November, 1874, conveyed the concern to James H. Drennen and John R. Gow. This firm continued to publish the News for about one year, when Mr. Gow retired, and J. H Drennen became sole proprietor and editor. The News is independent in politics, but in general favors the policy of the republican party. It is influential and is one of those out-spoken journals which has great weight on all matters of public concern. Flushing. - The News-Advertiser, published by F. M. and C. H. Judkins, at Flushing, is a bright, readable and reliable paper, giving the news of the neighborhood, and a large amount of good general reading matter. It was started May I, 1886, as an advertising medium, by C. H. Judkins, then a boy of sixteen years. It was soon found, however, that a local newspaper was needed, and to supply this want the Advertiser was enlarged to a seven-column folio, which is its present size. It is a neat, well-printed paper and ably edited. The business men of the town, recognizing its excellence, freely patronize its advertising columns. The most prosperous and influential people of the district are its patrons. The office is well equipped for a general line of job printing, and its presses are seldom idle. Bridgeport in the Past. - The following article was written by Dr. Todd in 1876: " Bridgeport is not without journalistic fame. For two years the proceedings of the Belmont Medical society were published here. The Belmont Farmer by various parties, prior to 1848. It was about one-fourth the size of the Intelligencer, generally, but sometimes it grew beautifully less. It was intensely whig in politics, especially un- BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO - 791 der the editorial management of that stern old patriot, David Allen. As nearly as we can ascertain, it was established by J. D. Gray, and first edited by William B. Affleck, the doctor's brother. " Three years ago the Zevely family started a paper called the Standard, which lasted only a few months. It claimed to be independent. " As Dr. J. G. Affleck has been the newspaper man of our town, a brief sketch of his life will not be uninteresting. The doctor was born in Drummelzier, Scotland, in 1802; came to America in 1819; studied medicine with Barton and Cook; first edited the National Historian in St. Clairsville from July 16, 1831, till June, 1833, buying out Horace J. Howard, a brother of Mrs. Affleck, and sold out to David McPherson, under whose administration the paper changed its name to the Belmont Chronicle. He edited the True Blue from Somerton and Bridgeport, in connection with his brother, from June, 1840, to 1846. Its politics were whig. One number of August, 1846, contains a call in flaming characters for a ' democrat whig convention.' Afterward in Bridgeport the Belmont Farmer, the Dog, the Cocoanut, all contained a series of reflections on the follies of mankind, taking his characters from well-known Bridgeporters. The portraitures are immensely amusing. Then came his small sized Belmont Farmer, with its expressive motto, viz.: ' What is the cursed multitude about?' (Goethe). He enlarged it in 1847, with this motto: Whilst some doubt of everything, and others profess to acknowledge everything, a wise man will embrace such tenets, and only such as are built upon experience, or upon certain and indisputable axioms — Epicurus. And now, occasionally he publishes the Tidal Waves. The doctor's mother was first cousin to ex-premier Gladstone, and he sat upon Latin and Greek benches with the great Dr. Chalmers, for whom he has an ardent admiration, and with Pollock also, author of ' The Course of Time.' In 1818, by invitation, the doctor visited the Wyandotte reservation, lying between Columbus and Lake Erie, and surveyed for them their lands, while he helped Rev. James B. Finley, a Methodist missionary, to convert the heathen." Benjamin Lundy. Connected with the press of Belmont county was the subject of this biography, who began his life work against slavery in St. Clairsville, and it was here that he gave to the world his celebrated " Appeal to Philanthropists," which earned for him a national reputation. The following is taken from a biographical sketch written by R. H. Taneyhill: The pioneer abolitionist in the United States was Benjamin Lundy, who began his labors as such in St. Clairsville, Belmont Co., Ohio. He there formed the first society whose only and avowed purpose was the overthrow of African slavery in the United States, and he there edited the first newspaper devoted to bringing into odium the monstrous crime of that slavery, and to finally driving it from the nation. Mr. Lundy was born in the state of New Jersey on the 4th day of January, A. D. 1789, at the town of Hardwick, Sussex county. Both his father and mother were 792 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. Quakers, and he, of course, was born in the communion of that church. In 1808 he went to the vicinity of Wheeling, Va., and after working at several places west and east of that town, finally settled there to learn the trade of a saddler. Having finished his apprenticeship, he went to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, but in a short time went back to New Jersey, where he was married. Soon after his marriage he returned to Ohio, settled at St. Clairsville, and set up the trade of saddle and harness maker. In the year 1815 he called a meeting of his neighbors to be held at his own house in the town of St. Clairsville, to organize an anti-slavery society. Only six persons attended that meeting, but they formed what they called a "Union Humane Society." That was the first abolition society ever organized in the United States. It was a small beginning of a counter-wave to the flood that was overflowing the nation. In a few weeks the house of Mr. Lundy was too little to hold the members of that society, and in six months from its " small beginning" the "Union Humane Society" had over 400 members, and among them some of the best citizens of Belmont county. Not satisfied with simply organizing an anti-slavery society and bringing his fellow-citizens into sympathy with its object, he began to write articles against the " great abomination." On his twenty-sixth birthday, Mr. Lundy wrote his first article upon the abolition of American slavery. He entitled the article, " The Appeal to Philanthropists." That " appeal " contains nearly every thought ever urged against African slavery in the United States, and whatever was afterward said or written upon that subject is only a repetition of that " appeal " or an elaboration of its ideas. In addition to the " appeal " he wrote several articles for the Philanthropist, a paper then printed and published at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and edited by one Charles Osborne, a Quaker gentleman. The general bearings of that paper were against slavery, but discussed that question rather abstractly. Shortly after he had written those articles for the Philanthropist he became an assistant editor on that paper. So soon as Mr. Lundy had assumed the character of editor, he did an act that happily illustrates the force of his feeling against slavery, and the dogged determination of his mind to wrestle with its crime. In order to have funds with which to make the paper a more powerful one, he put his entire stock of harness and saddles into a flat-boat to take them to St. Louis to sell. The trip down the river was a slow one, and he did not reach St. Louis until late in the fall of 1819. He found all business at a standstill, and everybody excited over the admission of Missouri as a state, with the memorable proviso known as the " Missouri Compromise." A fiery discussion was going on in the newspapers of the city, and Mr. Lundy, indiscreetly, yet manfully, entered the arena of discussion as a combatant for freedom. That course inflamed the public against him, and he could get no sale for his goods only at disastrous prices. Getting out of them all he could, he, to save all the money possible, made the journey home on foot, although it was the "dead of winter of 1820-1. 'Tis said calamities never come singly, and so Mr. Lundy found it to be in his case, for when he got back to Mt. BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO - 793 Pleasant, Mr. Osborne had sold out his establishment, and the press and type shipped to Jonesboro, Tenn. But the loss of his property, the unexpected destruction of the business, to give strength and prosperity to which he had sacrificed his means; with mid-winter upon him, without friends, among strangers, and his money scant, all seemed to form a grand stimulating compound that gave fresh vigor to the energy of Mr. Lundy. He at once resolved to start a news. paper of his own, exactly suited to his conception of the needs of the tremendous situation, for the charge of which he felt it his duty to act. Having gone on foot to several of the adjacent towns, on the hunt of a printer, willing to print his paper for him, he at last discovered the object of his wish at Steubenville, Ohio. That town was twenty miles distant from Mt. Pleasant, but Lundy, undaunted by obstacles and undismayed by his poverty, carried his manuscript and selections in his pocket, to that town on foot, had his paper printed and then walked back to Mt. Pleasant, carrying the first issue of the Genius of Universal Emancipation on his shoulders. ,He continued to be his own mail carrier, carrying his manuscript and selections one way, and the Genius of Universal Emancipation the other. 'Just as he had made the Genius of Universal Emancipation a newspaper success, he received a pressing invitation from the editor of the Philanthroptist, then published at Jonesboro, Tenn., to come there and print his paper at that office. Mr. Lundy very foolishly accepted the invitation. He went to Jonesboro and remained there three years, publishing his paper, but an abolition paper at the very heart of Tennessee, was too much for the " hot bloods " of that region to tolerate. He was often insulted as he passed about the streets, and threatened with personal violence, and on one occasion two ruffians locked him in a room, brandishing pistols in his face, de- claring that " if he didn't git out of thar, they'd be the death of him," but he stayed in Jonesboro until it suited him to leave it. The first " anti-slavery convention " ever held in the United States, met at Philadelphia in the winter of 1823-4. Mr. Lundy made the journey of 600 miles to attend its sittings. While at that convention he was induced to remove his paper to the east, and by an unlucky choice, located its publication at Baltimore, Md. Mr. Lundy left Jonesboro for Baltimore on foot, with knapsack on his back. He went by way of North Carolina. At Deep Creek, that state, he made his first public " anti-slavery" speech. He spoke in a beautiful grove near " Friends' meeting house," directly after divine service. He also spoke in the meeting at another time, and made speeches at some house raisings, and at a " militia muster." While at Deep Creek he organized an " abolition society." He once spoke at Raleigh, that state. As he went through Virginia, he made speeches at several places and organized one abolition society. He arrived at Baltimore about the first of October, 1824, and the first issue of his paper was made October 10, 1824, being No. 1, fourth volume. In the year 1828 Mr. Lundy went to New England on a lecturing tour. Arriving at Boston he visited the clergymen of the city, and 794 - HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. eight of them subscribed for his paper and prevailed upon him to hold an anti-slavery meeting. The meeting was held and largely attended by the people. At the close of the meeting several of the clergymen addressed the people, concurring in the views of Mr. Lundy. He went on to New Hampshire and Maine, lecturing when he could get the privilege. As he was returning, he spoke in the principal towns of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. He also traversed a large part of the state of New York, speaking at many ,of its prominent towns. It was on this tour at the city of Boston, that he first met Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, who was then quite a young man and a boarder at the house where Mr. Lundy sojourned. During his stay at Boston, he had frequent conversations with Mr. Garrison, and at last converted him to his views on the slavery question. In a short time, Mr. Garrison became an active worker in the cause of abolition. So it may be truly said that Mr. Lundy cleared away the mists from before the face of that mighty luminary of universal emancipation. In 1829, he visited Hayti and went many times to Canada to see how " his people " were getting along. In the winter of 1829, he was met on the street by Austin Woolfolk, a notorious slave trader of that day, and assaulted, and nearly beaten to death by him. Woolfolk was brought before Judge Nicholas Brice, for that offense, but Woolfolk was summarily set at liberty by " his Honor," with the remark, that " Lundy had got no more than he deserved." Mr. William Lloyd Garrison went to Baltimore, September 1, 1829, and become the associate editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation. As is universally known, Mr. Garrison was a strong and fearlesss writer, and in a short time, rendered himself subject to the fury of the "chivalry." Subsequently the partnership between those gentlemen was dissolved and the publication of the Genius of Universal Emancipation was transferred to Washington, D. C.; Mr. Lundy removing to that city. Mr. Garrison went back to Boston, and on the 1st day of January, 1831, he issued the first number of his illustrious abolition paper; the Liberator. From 1830 to 1835, Mr. Lundy was constantly engaged in providing homes for slaves set free, and getting them to their homes. He continued the publication of the Genius of Universal Emancipation, at Washington, D. C., until 1836, when he removed to the city of Philadelphia. After his arrival at Philadelphia, the name of his paper was changed to the National Enquirer, and in a short time to that of Pennsylvania Freeman. In July, 1838, Mr. Lundy started for the state of Illinois, and finally settled at Lowell, La Salle county, where he started the Genius of Universal Emancipation once more, but in August, 1839, he contracted a prevailing disease and died on the 22d day of that month. |