of those who hated slavery, though the excitement is afforded to their hopes was illusory. Its action in both ways became manifest in the year 1829. In the spring of this year the stir began at Cincinnati, where a strenuous effort was made to induce the white inhabitants to drive away the free colored people, by putting in force against them the atrocious state laws, which placed them in a condition of civil disability, and providing at the same time the means of transportation to Africa. The colored people held a meeting, petitioned the authorities for leave to remain in their present condition for sixty days, and despatched a committee to Canada, to see whether provision could be made for their residence there. The sixty days expired before the committee returned the populace of Cincinnati rose upon the colored people, and compelled them to barricade themselves in their houses, in assailing which, during three days and nights, several lives were lost. Sir James Colebrook, Governor of Upper Canada, charged the Committee with the following message-Tell the Republicans on your side of the line that we do not know men by their color. If you come to us, you will be entitled to all the privileges of the rest of his Majesty's subjects." In consequence of this welcome message, the greater part of the proscribed citizens removed to Canada, and formed the Wilberforce settlement. The few who remained behind were oppressed to the utmost degree that the iniquitous laws against them could be made to sanction. This was not a transaction which could be kept a secret. Meetings were held by the free blacks of all the principal towns north of the Carolinas, and resolutions passed expressive of their abhorrence of the Colonization Society. The resolutions passed at the Philadelphia meeting are a fair sample of the opinions of the class:

"Resolved, That we view with deep abhorrence the unmerited stigma attempted to be cast upon the reputation of the free people of color by the promoters of this measure, 'that they are a dangerous and useless part of the community,' when, in the state of disfranchisement in which they live, in the hour of danger they ceased to remember their wrongs, and rallied round the standard of their country.

"Resolved, That we never will separate ourselves voluntarily from the slave population in this country: they are our brethren by the ties of consanguinity, of suffering, and of wrong and we feel that there is more virtue in suffering privations with them than in fancied advantages for a season."

Such was one mode of operation of the Colonization Society. The other was upon the minds of individuals of the privileged color who had the spirit of abolitionism in them, without having yet learned how to direct it. Of these the chief, the heroic printer's lad, the master-mind of this great revolution, was then lying in prison, undergoing his baptism into the

cause.

William Lloyd Garrison is one of God's nobilitythe head of the moral aristocracy whose prerogatives we are contemplating. It is not only that he is invulnerable to injury-that he early got the world under his feet in a way which it would have made Zeno stroke his beard in complacency to witness, but that in his meekness, his sympathies, his self-forgetfulness, he appears "covered all over with the stars and orders" of the spiritual realm whence he derives his dignities and powers. At present he is a marked wherever he turns. The faces of his friends brighten when his step is heard the people of color almost kneel to him; and the rest of society jeer, pelt, and execrate him. Amidst all this, his gladsome life rolls on, 66 too busy to be anxious, and too loving to be sad." He springs from his bed singing at sunrise; and if, during the day, tears should cloud his serenity, they are never shed for himself. His countenance of steady compassion gives hope to the

man

oppressed, who look to him as the Jews looked to Moses. It was this serene countenance, saint-like in its earnestness and purity, that a man bought at a print-shop, where it was exposed without a name, and hung up as the most apostolic face he ever saw. It does not alter the case that the man took it out of the frame and hid it when he found that it was Garrison who had been adorning his parlour. As for his own persecutors, Garrison sees in them the creatures of of unfavorable circumstances. He early satisfied. himself that a "rotten egg cannot hit truth ;" and then the whole matter was settled. Such is his case now. In 1829 it was very different. He was an obscure lad, gaining some superficial improvement in a country college, when tidings of the Colonization scheme reached him, and filled him with hope for the colored race. He resolved to devote himself to the cause, and went down to Baltimore to learn such facts as would enable him to lecture on the subject. The fallacies of the plan melted before his gaze, while the true principle became so apparent as to decide his mission. While this process was going on, he got into his first trouble. A Mr Todd, a New England merchant, freighted a vessel with slaves for the New Orleans market, in the interval of his annual thanksgivings to God that the soil of his State was untrodden by the foot of a slave. Garrison said what he thought of the transaction in a newspaper; was tried for libel, and committed to prison till he could pay the imposed fine of a thousand dollars—a sum which might as well have been a million for any ability he had to pay it. Some record of what was his state of mind at this time was left on his prison wall :

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