CHAPTER X.
BETWEEN THE ACTS.
Mr.Garrison, in a private letter to a friend under date of September 12, 1834, summarises the doings of the preceding twelve months of his life, and makes mention of a fact which lends peculiar interest to that time: "It has been the most eventful year," he remarks, "in my history.
I have been the occasion of many uproars, and a continual disturber of the public peace.

As soon as I landed I turned the city of New York upside down.

Five thousand people turned out to see me tarred and feathered, but were disappointed.

There was also a small hubbub in Boston on my arrival.

The excitement passed away, but invective and calumny still followed me.