"For always in thine eyes, O Liberty!
Shines that high light whereby the world is saved;
And though thou slay us, we will trust in thee."
JOHN HAY.
"A free man is one who enjoys the use of his reason, and his faculties; who is neither blinded by passion, nor hindered or driven by oppression, nor deceived by erroneous opinions." -PROUDHON.

3/23/12

Compliments from Liberty's Friends.

Yours is the best first number I have ever seen. -James Parton.

Such an instance of
multum in purvo in journalism I have never seen before. I read it all through, and have returned to it occasionally, as one takes a sip of a ginger tonic. Intensity of conviction and conciseness and audacity of statement meet in it. -B. W. Ball.

The principles which Liberty advocates will do much to make society better. -
New Bedford News.
Liberty is a twelve-column journal containing a great amount of radical news and excellent editorials on progressive themes. -
Fall River Herald

The first number is bright and snappy, abounding in clever hits and appropriate selections. -
Boston Globe.

It announces that it "well be edited to suit its editor, not its readers," and we have not the least doubt that this is precisely true. "Down with Authority" is the "war cry" of the journal, and this theory it steadfastly and strongly maintains. Those who have no sympathy with its views will enjoy the sharp, incisive manner in which they are presented. -
New Before Mercury.

Liberty is one of the grandest words in the language, and of course it is a grand name for a paper, a radical or liberal one, we mean, such as Mr. Benj. R. Tucker's Liberty..... As Mr. Tucker has the ability and industry, radicalism and independence, he will make an interesting and suggestive paper. -
Boston Investigator.

We are not one of those who would have Liberty speak by the assassin's bullet or the thunder bombs tossed at individuals. But this we will say, Liberty has the most beautiful expositions in the typography of its heading that we have seen for many a day. -
Washington National View.
Here comes another paper. Its name is Liberty and its birthplace is Boston. Of all the bold little sheets that reach our table, Liberty is the boldest and most daring. May Liberty never die. -
Indianapolis Sun.

Liberty is intelligent and vigorous, has opinions, character, and will command attention from its first issue; a bright, smart, timely journal, which live people will find it unsafe
not to subscribe for. -Princeton Word.

It is outspoken on all questions, and affords spicy reading to those who are not troubled with orthodoxy. -
Nebraska City Press.

A very newsy sheet. -
Galena Industrial Press.

It is ably edited and neatly printed, and looks as though it had come to stay. -
Brooklyn Blade.

"Who is Somebody?" from Liberty, is far the most able article we have seen in reply to the inquiry put forth by "Truth." -
Worcester Republic.

More Liberty! I thought I had all I wanted, but your supply finds an unexpected demand. Many
journals, new and old, are sent to me at this office, but yours is the only one I have read through from end to end. Couldn't find a good place - no, I mean a bad place - to let go. Your blazoning the demands and conditions of Liberty thus on paper must go far towards securing the real article for all the people in their daily lives. -
T.C. Leland, Secretary of the National Liberal League.

All hail Liberty! "Not the daughter, but the mother of order." That is the key-note of the new revolution. -
E.C. Walker, Secretary of the Iowa State Liberal League.

Liberty, a new paper in the interest of any except existing interests, and edited on the principle that "whatever is is wrong," has just appeared..... For a thorough-going Nihilistic-Socialistic-Democratic sheet, Liberty takes first rank. Its editor, Mr. B. R. Tucker, has an advantage over many of his own way of thinking. He knows what he dislikes, and if the sheet is edited in a manner to shock conservatives and pious people, it will at least be edited with brains and rare skill in the presentation of alleged facts. Extra-radical radicals will find the sheet interesting; the pious and conservative folk will also find it of interest to read, on the same principle that Rowland Hill read play-bills - that "it is necessary to know what the devil is doing." Mr. Tucker is a disciple of Proudhon, whose famous memoirs, "What is Property?" has has "done" into good English - the only translation, at least this side of the Atlantic, of this remarkable work, the cardinal principle of which is that "Property is Robbery.".... In the present state of public feeling, it requires a little pluck to publish a sheet which finds less fault with regicide than tyranny, and reserves scruples of compassion for the oppressed rather than the oppressor. But Mr. Tucker has the courage of his opinions, and those good people who are ready to see the cloven foot in this remarkable sheet will, like the poet Coleridge, be compelled to "admire the devil's evident talent." -
Boston Correspondent of the Fall River Advance.

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