This brilliant scheme was nothing less absurd than the establishment of a censorship over the _Liberator_.

But as these solicitous souls had reckoned without their host, their amiable plan came to naught; but not, however, before adding a new element to the universal discord then fast swelling to a roar.

To the storm of censure gathering about his head the reformer bowed not--neither swerved he to the right hand nor to the left--all the while deeming it, "with the apostle, a small thing to be judged by man's judgment." "I solicit no man's praise," he sternly replies to his critics, "I fear no men's censure." There was still another cause of offence given by Garrison to his countrymen.

It was not his _hard language_, but a circumstance less tolerable, if that was possible, than even that rock of offence.

It seems that when the editor of the _Liberator_ was in England, and dining with Thomas Powell Buxton, he was asked by the latter in what way the English Abolitionists could best assist the anti-slavery movement in America, and he had replied, "_By giving us George Thompson_." This unexpected answer of the American appeared without doubt to the Englishman at the time somewhat extraordinary.