He had even dared to inject the poison of Abolitionism into the politics of Boston and Massachusetts.

This attempt on the part of the _Liberator_ to establish an anti-slavery test of office was only another proof of the dangerous character of the new fanaticism and the Jacobinical designs of the Garrisonian fanatics, ergo, the importance of suppressing the incendiaries.

Down with Thompson! Garrison must be destroyed! The Union--it must and shall be preserved! All these the public excitement, which had risen everywhere to a tempest, had come more and more to mean.
A tremendous crisis had come in the life of Garrison, and a great peril, eagle-like, with the stirred-up hate of a nation, was swooping upon him..