The Liberator Analysis

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Remaining in Boston, Gideon and I found an issue of The Liberator – a corrupt, disgraceful paper filled with words that fully go against the patriotic beliefs of our Founding Fathers! Father was right about the absurd radical abolition ideas of the Yankees who constantly whine about the troubling issues with the blacks despite our southerners’ large investment in slaves for the better good of our economy! From once the slaves were born we fed them, clothed them, and taught them their proper place in society, which was not cheap if we provided for them for years while in return they only work in the fields and house. On the other hand, we plantation owners handle the more complicated business they do not understand with the fluctuating supply …show more content…

Under the assumption Garrison and his family were asleep, I quietly took watch at the front entrance with Gideon while one man guarded the back entrance and the rest silently crept into the house. With my hand on my revolver, I softly opened the creaky wooden door soon after Gideon picked the lock open. It felt like hours as we stood by the door carefully scrutinizing into the darkness until we heard tumbling down the stairs. Suddenly, the two men appeared to be grabbing Garrison by the arms. Then, they roughly kicked him into his front yard. Each man took turns taunting and threatening Garrison to dismiss his eager preaching about abolition as a justifiable act for God. The punches and kicks were only meant to leave bruises onto the following day so that he would be reminded of future violent attacks if The Liberator continued to publish its nonsensible ideas. Finally submitting into the pain, he cried for mercy and implored us to take all his valuable belongings in order for us to stop. Surprisingly, he misunderstood us as petty thieves. We punched harder and kicked harder while screaming into the cold night of our true patriotic values of needing to preserve slavery! It was time for us to gather our young spirit like our revolutionary ancestors to fight for the true moral cause – the protection of slavery. Instead, Garrison cried out into the cold night, “I am in earnest – I will not …show more content…

The rest of the night not policeman came knocking into the inn, because by morning, Gideon revealed to me that he brilliantly paid the police the night before. Gideon was always the more intellectual one with his quick thinking on his feet, whereas I was impulsive to chase my dreams. The night reminded me again of my desire to set out into this journey, which was to explore the opportunities a young man can find out west with the wild. During that night, I realized that I had to achieve the dream I had since childhood of writing a successful adventure story inspired by The Prairie, The Last of the Mohicans, and The

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