The Liberator

COLONEL STONE.

What is the matter with him? He acts like a dog with a sore head. We hope he will not be seized with the hydrophobia; for his abuse and vituperation are very beneficial to the anti-slavery cause. A libel more base and malignant than the following, which we copy from the Commercial Advertiser of the 9th inst. was never uttered:

He [Garrison] was not imprisoned on account of his attachment to the cause of abolition, but on account of his attachment to the cause of falsehood. In other words he was punished, and justly punished, for an atrocious libel, published in Baltimore, upon a most respectable citizen of Newburyport, Massachusetts. In asserting that five thousand dollars were offered by Georgia for his body, he evidently means to convey the impression that the sum named was offered for his head as an outlaw—whereas it was offered for his arrest, in order that he might be held to trial for an alleged offence. Nor was it offered 'on account of his attachment to the cause of abolition,' but on account of his attachment to the cause of REBELLION. MASSACRE and PLUNDER. In other words, he wrote seditious and inflammatory pamphlets exciting the slaves in the south to rebellion and it was for this cause that a reward was offered for his apprehension.'

Now we offer to put a copy of every pamphlet written by Mr. Garrison into the hands of Col. Stone, and for every line of seditious matter which he can find in them, we will pay $5.00. The question may be submitted to three men, one of whom shall be chosen by each of us, and the third by the two thus selected. Col. Stone, it should be remembered, is the Secretary of the N. Y. City Colonization Society.

The foregoing paragraph may help to answer the question, 'Why cannot the Anti-Slavery and Colonization Societies coalesce?'