It was the old experiment of the frog in the well, that went two feet up and fell three feet back, at every jump." Where the income of the paper did not exceed fifty dollars in four months and the weekly expenditure amounted to at least that sum, the financial failure of the enterprise was inevitable.

This unhappy event did actually occur six weeks before the junior editor went to jail; and the partnership was formally dissolved in the issue of the _Genius_ of March 5, 1830.

But when Arthur Tappan made his generous offer of a hundred dollars to effect Garrison's release, he made at the same time an offer of an equal amount to aid the editors in reestablishing the _Genius_.

This proposition led to hopes on the part of the two friends to a renewal of their partnership in the cause of emancipation.

And so Garrison's visit to the North was taken advantage of to test the disposition of Northern philanthropy to support such a paper.