This paper he proposed to call the _Public Liberator_, and to issue from Washington.

The prospectus of this journalistic project bearing date, August, 1830, declares in its opening sentence its "primary object" to be "the abolition of slavery, and the moral and intellectual elevation of our colored population." "I shall spare no efforts," he pledged himself, "to delineate the withering influence of slavery upon our national prosperity and happiness, its awful impiety, its rapid extension, and its inevitable consequences if it be suffered to exist without hindrance.

It will also be my purpose to point out the path of safety, and a remedy for the disease." This comprehensive and aggressive plan of campaign signalized the rise of an Abolitionism wholly unlike the Abolitionism of any previous time in the history of the country.

It did in fact date the opening of a new era in the slavery struggle in America.
With Northern indifference and apathy on the subject of emancipation, Garrison's previous visit to the North had acquainted him.

Their existence he saw interposed the main obstacle to the success of his new venture in journalism.