To Garrison, from his _Liberator_ outlook, all seemed "Consternation and perplexity, for perilous times have come." They had, indeed, come in New York, as witness this from the pen of Lydia Maria Child, who was at the time (August 15) in Brooklyn.

Says she: "I have not ventured into the city, nor does one of us dare to go to church to-day, so great is the excitement here.

You can form no conception of it.

'Tis like the time of the French Revolution, when no man dared trust his neighbor.

Private assassins from New Orleans are lurking at the corners of the streets to stab Arthur Tappan, and very large sums are offered for any one who will convey Mr.Thompson into the slave States....