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William Lloyd Garrison

CHAPTER V
7/11

It did not look as if its voice would ever reach beyond the small dark chamber where it saw the light.
Picture, oh! reader, a wee sheet with four columns to the page, measuring fourteen inches one way and nine and a quarter the other, and you will get an idea of the diminutiveness of the _Liberator_ on the day of its birth.

The very paper on which it was printed was procured on credit.

To the ordinary observer it must have seemed such a weakling as was certain to perish from inanition in the first few months of its struggle for existence in the world of journalism.

It was domiciled during successive periods in four different rooms of the Merchant's Hall building, until it reached No.

11, "under the eaves," whence it issued weekly for many years to call the nation to repentance.


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