So did Thurlow Weed; so did David B.
Hill.

New York seems to have been prolific in enterprising newsboys.
What nonsense for two uneducated and unknown youths who met in a cheap boarding-house in Boston to array themselves against an institution whose roots were embedded in the very constitution of our country, and which was upheld by scholars, statesmen, churches, wealth, and aristocracy, without distinction of creed or politics! What chance had they against the prejudices and sentiment of a nation?
But these young men were fired by a lofty purpose, and they were thoroughly in earnest.
One of them, Benjamin Lundy, had already started in Ohio a paper called "The Genius of Universal Liberty," and had carried the entire edition home on his back from the printing-office, twenty miles, every month.
He had walked four hundred miles on his way to Tennessee to increase his subscription list.

He was no ordinary young man.
With William Lloyd Garrison, he started to prosecute his work more earnestly in Baltimore.

The sight of the slave-pens along the principal streets; of vessel-loads of unfortunates torn from home and family and sent to Southern ports; the heartrending scenes at the auction blocks, made an impression on Garrison never to be forgotten; and the young man whose mother was too poor to send him to school, although she early taught him to hate oppression, resolved to devote his life to secure the freedom of these poor wretches.
In the first issue of his paper, Garrison urged an immediate emancipation, and called down upon his head the wrath of the entire community.

He was arrested and sent to jail.