"Whether I shall again be connected with the press, in a similar capacity, is quite problematical; but at my period of life, I feel no prompting to start a new journal at my own risk, and with the certainty of struggling against wind and tide, as I have done in the past. "I began the publication of the _Liberator_ without a subscriber, and I end it--it gives me unalloyed satisfaction to say--without a farthing as the pecuniary result of the patronage extended to it during thirty-five years of unremitted labors. "From the immense change wrought in the national feeling and sentiment on the subject of slavery, the _Liberator_ derived no advantage at any time in regard to its circulation. * * * * * "Farewell, tried and faithful patrons! Farewell, generous benefactors, without whose voluntary but essential pecuniary contributions the _Liberator_ must have long since been discontinued! Farewell, noble men and women who have wrought so long and so successfully, under God, to break every yoke! Hail, ye ransomed millions! Hail, year of jubilee! With a grateful heart and a fresh baptism of the soul, my last invocation shall be-- 'Spirit of Freedom! on-- Oh! pause not in thy flight Till every clime is won, To worship in thy light: Speed on thy glorious way, And wake the sleeping lands! Millions are watching for the ray, And lift to thee their hands. Still 'Onward!' be thy cry-- Thy banner on the blast; And as thou rushest by, Despots shall shrink aghast. On! till thy name is known Throughout the peopled earth; On! till thou reign'st alone, Man's heritage by birth; On! till from every vale, and where the mountains rise, The beacon lights of Liberty shall kindle to the skies!' WM. LLOYD GARRISON." There were those in the party of the Garrisonian Abolitionists whose course at this time seemed to justify the popular impression that faultfinding had so long been their occupation, that they were not willing to accept even their own victory at the price of giving up their liberty of denunciation. It is doubtless very dangerous to the finer tissues of one's moral nature to live only to deny and contend and rebuke.