Lundy had made arrangement for the transportation of fifty slaves to Hayti and their settlement in that country.

So he and Garrison advertised this fact in the _Genius_, but they waited in vain for a favorable response from the South--notwithstanding the following humane inducement which this advertisement offered: "THE PRICE OF PASSAGE WILL BE ADVANCED, and everything furnished of which they may stand in need, until they shall have time to prepare their houses and set in to work." No master was moved to take advantage of the opportunity.

This was discouraging to the believers in the efficacy of colonization as a potent anti-slavery instrument.

But Garrison was no such believer.

With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery." He obtained at this period an intimate personal knowledge of the free colored people.