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strength and dexterity. We lingered long in Indiana, and the good effects of our labors there are felt at this day. I have lately visited Pendleton, now one of the best republican towns in the State, and looked again upon the spot where I was beaten down, and have again taken by the hand some of the witnesses of that scene, amongst whom was the kind, good lady—Mrs. Hardy—who, so like the good Samaritan of old, bound up my wounds, and cared for me so kindly. A complete history of these hundred conventions would fill a volume far larger than the one in which this simple reference is to find a place. It would be a grateful duty to speak of the noble young men, who forsook ease and pleasure, as did White, Gay, and Monroe, and endured all manner of privations in the cause of the enslaved and down-trodden of my race. Gay, Monroe, and myself are the only ones who participated as agents in the one hundred conventions who now survive. Mr. Monroe was for many years consul to Brazil, and has since been a faithful member of Congress from the Oberlin District, Ohio, and has filled other important positions in his State. Mr. Gay was managing editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard and afterwards of the New York Tribune,Horace Greeley founded the New York Tribune in 1841. Following stints editing small campaign papers, the Log Cabin and the Jeffersonian, Greeley printed the first four-page, five-column issue of the Tribune on 10 April 1841. Conceived as a "cheap" political paper that honest workingmen could turn to for moral direction and nonpartisan political analysis, the Tribune was to be antislavery, anti-rum, anti-tobacco, anti-seduction, anti-grogshops, anti-brothels, and anti-gambling houses, among other things. With the financial talents of Whig lawyer Thomas McElrath, Greeley built the Tribune into a profitable enterprise, printing a daily morning edition as well as a weekly edition, which sold mainly by $2 yearly subscription. The weekly Tribune was the nation's first national newspaper, circulating around the country to general stores, offices, and legislative chambers in the East and West. Within only a few years, the Tribune became the leader in national news, and Greeley was the best-known newspaperman in the country. Among the Tribune`s editors was the abolitionist Sydney Howard Gay. Gay arrived at the Tribune in 1857, and for five years churned out editorials that earned him a reputation for thoroughness and competence. In April 1862 Gay succeeded Charles Anderson Dana as managing editor. Under Gay's management, Edward Dicey of the London Spectator proclaimed the paper "better printed, more thoughtfully written, and more carefully got up than any of its contemporaries." Because of ill health, Gay resigned as managing editor in the summer of 1865. George H. Douglas, The Golden Age of the Newspaper (Westport, Conn., 1999), 39-43; Louis M. Starr, Bohemian Brigade: Civil War Newsmen in Action (New York, 1954), 98-116; ANB, 8:806-08. and still later of the New York Evening Post.Sydney Howard Gay had resigned from the New York Tribune for health reasons in 1865. Gay had later worked as managing editor of the Chicago Tribune from 1867 to 1871. Shortly after that city's infamous fire, Gay returned to New York City to join the editorial staff of William Cullen Bryant's New York Evening Post, where he stayed until 1874. The New York Post had been founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1800. In addition to Gay and Bryant, the Post`s staff has featured such luminaries as E. L. Godkin, Lincoln Steffins, and James Thurber. Goerler, "Family, Self, and Anti-Slavery," 270-76.

CHAPTER VI.
IMPRESSIONS ABROAD.

Danger to be averted —A refuge sought abroad—Voyage on the steamship "Cambria"—Refusal of first-class passage—Attractions of the forecastle-deck—Hutchinson family—Invited to make a speech—Southerners feel insulted—Captain threatens to put them in irons—Experiences abroad—Attentions received—Impressions of different members of Parliament, and of other public men—Contrast with life in America—Kindness of friends —Their purchase of my person, and the gift of the same to myself—My return.

As I have before intimated, the publishing of my "Narrative" was regarded by my friends with mingled feelings of satisfaction and apprehension. They were glad to have the doubts and insinuations which the advocates and apologists of slavery had made against me proved to the world to be false, but they had many fears lest this very proof would endanger my safety, and make it necessary for me to leave a position which in a signal manner had opened before me, and one in which I had thus far been efficient in assisting to arouse the moral sentiment of the community against a system which had deprived me, in common with my fellow-slaves, of all the attributes of manhood.

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