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...Will Be Heard." Garrison became an abolitionist hero in 1830 when, as a young Baltimore editor, he denounced a slave trader in print. Fined $50 and costs for his "gross and malicious libel," he went to jail because he lacked the money. In jail he. wrote a thundering pamphlet about his case-and his career as a reformer had begun...
Died. Oswald Garrison Villard, 77, crusading editor (the New York Evening Post, 1897-1918; the Nation, 1918-32); in Manhattan. Heir to the diehard liberalism of his grandfather, Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and to the fortune of his father, Henry Villard (one of the builders of the Northern Pacific Railroad), Editor Villard spent a lifetime plumping for such causes as civil liberties and pacifism, finally came to the conclusion that most of his heroes (notably Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith and F.D.R.) had feet of clay...
When the panic of 1873 hit Lynn, Mass., Real Estate Agent Isaac Pinkham and his 54-year-old wife Lydia found themselves flat broke. Fumbling old Isaac was crushed, but his tough-willed Quaker wife rose to the occasion. As a girl, Lydia had been a fierce Abolitionist, and she had organized a society to debate slavery and female suffrage. Her response to the new challenge: bottling and selling a home medicine she had been using for years. Ingredients: a blend of herbs, including true-unicorn and pleurisy root, steeped and macerated in an 18% alcohol base (about as potent...
...Abolitionist Movement...
...John Brown, the famed Kansas abolitionist, was tried, convicted, and hanged for treason to the state of Virginia...