He took with him an open letter from Lundy looking to the renewal of the weekly _Genius_ under their joint control.

Prior to Garrison's trial the paper had fallen into great stress for want of money.

Lundy and he had made a division of their labors, the latter doing the editorial and office work, while the former traveled from place to place soliciting subscriptions and collecting generally the sinews of war.

But the experiment was not successful from a business standpoint.

For as Garrison playfully observed subsequently: "Where friend Lundy could get one new subscriber, I could knock a _dozen_ off, and I did so.