Beginning the Twenty-Third Volume

OUR TWENTY-THIRD VOLUME      ” We commence the Twenty-Third Volume of The Liberator in a new typographyical dress, proffering to its faithful patrons the best wishes and most friendly salutations of the season. On the first day of January, 1831, we issued the first number of The Liberator, without any list of subscribers, comparatively unknown and friendless. Since that memorable day, twenty-two years have completed their cycles; and we are still in the field of conflict, somewhat worn and battle-scarred it may be, but not solitary, as of old, but cheered and sustained by a host of combatants, and as elastic in spirit as in the beginning. We have gone through a long and perilous career, and experienced many trying vicissitudes; but, ‘by the help of the Lord’, we continue to this day…..”      (Liberator, January 7, 1853, pg 2)