Garrison, William Lloyd (editor):

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THE LIBERATOR. Vol. XXXV. No. 15....Whole No. 1784. The Union victory issue of William Lloyd Garrison's long-running and highly influential newspaper, The Liberator, published the morning of Friday, April 14, 1865; mere hours before the assassination of President Lincoln. The first issue of Garrison's important radical abolitionist newspaper was published on January 1, 1831, and ran every week for the next thirty-five years, ending with the final issue of December 29, 1865.Not knowing the pall which would fall upon the country later this day, this issue of The Liberator abounds with joyous expressions for the end of the war, celebrating both the fall of Richmond on April 3 and the surrender of Lee on April 9. Under a heading titled "The Death of the Slaveholders' Rebellion," the editors proclaim that "We go to press this week in the midst of universal jubilation. The air is filled with the music of bells and the reverberation of cannon; no demonstration of delight seems too extravagant, no expression of gratitude is adequate to the occasion. The celebration of the capture of Richmond was measured – for four years of premature congratulations and prophecies have taught us to distrust success itself; but the news of Lee's surrender to Gen. Grant was the signal for a popular demonstration unequalled since the fall of Sumter." Additionally, the lead article on page one reports on the proceedings of a "Great Jubilee Meeting at Faneuil Hall, in honor of the fall of Richmond," and t

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