And money was indispensable even to a philanthropist, who cared as little for it as did Garrison.

He had never in his twenty-eight years experienced the sensation which a bank account, however small, gives its possessor.

He had been toiling during the last three years in a state of chronic self-forgetfulness, and of consequence in a state of chronic inpecuniosity.

He had never been careful of what he got--was careful only of what he gave.

For himself he was ready to subsist on bread and water and to labor more than fourteen hours at the case to make the issue of the _Liberator_ possible.