I admit the charge.

I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy, or to identify the perpetrator of it." This was a new departure which was instantly recognized by Southern leaders.
But from the beginning to the bitter end, Garrison stands alone as preeminently the representative of this form of attack.

It was significant, also, that the Liberator was published in Boston, the literary center of the country.
There is no evidence that there was any direct connection between the publication of the Liberator and the servile insurrection which occurred during the following August.

* It was, however, but natural that the South should associate the two events.

A few utterances of the paper were fitted, if not intended, to incite insurrection.