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But nothing came of these suggestions. Soon, however, William Lloyd Garrison began at Boston the publication of a paper called the Liberator. He wished for complete abolition without payment. For a time he labored almost alone. Then slowly others came to his aid, and the Antislavery Society was founded.
但是，這些提議沒有引起反響。然而，不久之后威廉·勞埃德·加里森在波士頓創辦了一份報紙--《解放者》，他希望不做賠付而徹底廢除奴隸制，有一段時間他幾乎是孤軍奮戰，后來有人加入他的行列，于是，就形成了"美國廢奴協會"。
325. Opposition to the Abolitionists.
325．反對廢奴主義者
It must not be thought that the abolitionists were not opposed. They were most vigorously opposed. Very few Northern men wished to have slavery reestablished in the North. But very many Northern men objected to the antislavery agitation because they thought it would injure business. Some persons even argued that the antislavery movement would bring about the destruction of the Union. In this idea there was a good deal of truth. For Garrison grew more and more outspoken. He condemned the Union with slaveholders and wished to break down the Constitution, because it permitted slavery. There were anti-abolitionist riots in New York, New Jersey, and New Hampshire. In Boston the rioters seized Garrison and dragged him about the streets (1835).
絕不可以認為廢奴主義者沒有遭到反對，他們遇到最強烈的反對。極少數北方人在北方重建奴隸制，但許多北方人反對煽動廢奴行為，因為這將損害他們的商業，有的人甚至提出廢奴運動將造成聯邦的分裂。這個思想道出了大量真理，因為加里森的言論越來越不加掩飾，他譴責有奴隸主的聯邦，并且，因為憲法允許奴隸制，他想毀掉憲法。在紐約、新澤西和新罕布什爾發生了反對廢奴主義者的騷亂，在波士頓，鬧事者抓住加里森，并在大街上拖著他游行。
326. Slave Rebellion in Virginia, 1831.
326．弗吉尼亞州奴隸的叛亂（1831年）
At about the time that Garrison established the Liberator at Boston, a slave rebellion broke out in Virginia. The rebels were led by a slave named Nat Turner, and the rebellion is often called "Nat Turner's Rebellion." It was a small affair and was easily put down. But the Southerners were alarmed, because they felt that the Northern antislavery agitation would surely lead to more rebellions. They called upon the government to forbid the sending of the Liberator and similar "incendiary publications" through the mails.
大約在加里森于波士頓創辦《解放者》的時候，弗吉尼亞發生了一次奴隸叛亂事件。叛亂分子的領導者是一名叫納特o特納的奴隸，因此常常把這次叛亂叫做"納特·特納的叛亂"。這是一個小事件，并且被毫不費力地鎮壓，但南方人得到了警告，因為他們感到北方的反奴隸制鼓動將導致更多的叛亂，他們要求政府通過郵局禁止發行《解放者》和類似的"煽動性出版物"。
