As he has recorded the result of this experience: "Opposition served only to increase my ardor, and confirm my purpose." Strange and incomprehensible to his fellows is the man who prefers "persecution, reproach, and poverty" with duty, to worldly ease and honor and riches without it.

When a man appears in society who is not controlled by motives which usually govern the conduct of other men he becomes at first an object of pity, then of contempt, and, lastly, of hate.

Garrison we may be sure at the end of this visit had made rapid transit from the first to the second of these stages in the esteem of his generation.
His experience was not all of this deplorable kind.

He left Baltimore without the money required to pay his way North, depending literally upon the good God to provide for him the necessary means to complete his journey.

And such help was more than once providentially afforded the young apostle of liberty.