Friday, July 12, however, he realized much work lay ahead. “A night’s rest brought me to my senses, and I clearly saw that I must have some other help than even Mr. Tappan’s pecuniary generosity could give me,” May said.29 At the time May published a religious paper, the Christian Monitor, served as pastor of the Unitarian Church in Brooklyn, and taught at Crandall’s school. Publishing and editing a weekly political newspaper in addition to his other responsibilities “was wholly beyond my power,” May said.30 May recently had read a thoughtful, well-written article in the Emancipator, reprinted from Benjamin Lundy’s The Genius of Universal Emancipation, criticizing Connecticut’s Black Law. Charles C. Burleigh wrote the article and lived in Plainfield, Connecticut, a short carriage ride from Brooklyn. May decided to go to Plainfield and find Burleigh.31
May arrived at the Burleigh family farm later that same day. The dry, sunny weather made it a perfect day for haying, and Charles and his brothers were all in the fields. Charles’s mother told May to come back another time, but May persisted. “My business with him is more important than haying,” May said.32
Charles Burleigh did not impress May at first. Burleigh came in from the fields in his ragged farm clothes. He had a scruffy beard. Twenty-two years old, Burleigh taught in the local district school and studied law while helping his parents tend to their farm. As May and Burleigh talked about the antislavery movement, however, May heard the voice of the writer who wrote the eloquent article in the Emancipator. May trusted his instincts and immediately offered the job of newspaper editor to Charles. When May promised to help find a person to take Burleigh’s place at the family farm, Charles accepted.33 Burleigh began his new career in publishing the very next Monday, July 15, 1833.
17. Charles C. Burleigh, editor of the Unionist. He favored immediate emancipation, equal rights for women, and repeal of the death penalty.
Charles C. Burleigh. From Wendell Phillips Garrison and Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879: The Story of His Life Told by His Children, vol. 3 (New York: Century, 1885), 226.
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