Lundy had, since the issue of the _Prospectus_ for the new paper, removed the _Genius_ to the capital of the nation.

This move of Lundy rendered the establishment of a second paper devoted to the abolition of slavery in the same place, of doubtful utility, but, weighty as was this consideration from a mere business point of view, in determining Garrison to locate the _Liberator_ in another quarter, it was not decisive.

Just what was the decisive consideration, he reveals in his salutatory address in the _Liberator_.
Here it is: "During my recent tour for the purpose of exciting the minds of the people by a series of discourses on the subject of slavery," he confides to the reader, "every place that I visited gave fresh evidence of the fact, that a greater revolution in public sentiment was to be effected in the free States--_and particularly in New England_--than at the South.

I found contempt more bitter, opposition more active, detraction more relentless; prejudice more stubborn, and apathy more frozen than among slaveowners themselves.

Of course there were individual exceptions to the contrary.