[William Lloyd Garrison by Archibald H. Grimke]@TWC D-Link bookWilliam Lloyd Garrison CHAPTER XII 8/16
He but voiced the sentiment of the editor's disciples and associates in the city, in the State, and in New England as well. Besides these larger consequences there were others of a more personal and less welcome character.
The individual suffers but the cause goes forward.
Property-holders in Boston after the riot were not at all disposed to incur the risk of renting property to such disturbers of the peace as Garrison and the _Liberator_.
The owner of his home on Brighton street was thrown into such alarm for the safety of his property, if Garrison continued to occupy it, that he requested the cancellation of the lease and the vacation of the premises.
Garrison and his friends, all things considered, decided that it was the part of wisdom to accede to the request--although this breaking up of his home was a sore trial to the young husband in more ways than one. The landlord of the building where was located the _Liberator_ office promptly notified the publishers to remove the paper not many mornings after the mob.
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