Garrison’s Reception in Virginia
The sad effects of newspaper rivalry (says the N. Y. Evening Post) were never more forcibly exhibited than in the following querulous passage from the Richmond Enquirer of the 29th. It would appear that Garrison’s Boston Liberator, the organ of the abolition disunionists, is seriously competing with the circulation of that stanch old exponent of southern ultraism, through which old exponent of southern ultraism, through which the late Thomas Ritchie and his family have so long fulmined:
“ ‘ TO WHAT BASE USES MAY WE COME AT LAST! –The Liberator, the organ of the abolitionists, of the Pillsbury, Garrison and Phillips stamp, is being actively circulated in the western counties. This in Virginia! Have we not upon our statutes a law providing for the punishment of those who aid in law circulation of such documents? And yet a package containing upwards of twenty of these same pages went through the mail yesterday, to a man in Wythe county. “
(Liberator, June 8, 1855, pg 3)_
