That was simply a case of cause and effect.

But he seemed in turn astonished at his opponent's evident ignorance of William Lloyd Garrison.

"It is true," he replied, with the proud dignity of conscious power, "it is true that my acquaintance in this city is limited.

I have sought none.

Let me assure him, however, that if my life be spared, my name shall one day be known to the world--at least to such extent that common inquiry shall be unnecessary.
This, I know will be deemed excessive vanity--but time shall prove it prophetic." To the charge of youth he makes this stinging rejoinder, which evinces the progress he was making in the tournament of language: "The little, paltry sneers at my youth by your correspondent have long since become pointless.