He had no money and little learning, but he had a conscience and he knew that he must be true to that conscience, come to him either weal or woe.

Want renders most men vulnerable, but to it, he appeared, at this early age, absolutely invulnerable.

Should he and that almost omnipotent inquisitor, public opinion, ever in the future come into collision upon any principle of action, a keen student of human nature might forsee that the young recusant could never be starved into silence or conformity to popular standards.

And with this stern, sad lesson treasured up in his heart, Garrison graduated from another room in the school-house of experience.

All the discoveries of the young journalist were not of this grim character.