And therefore to this end Garrison now bent his remarkable energies.
Agents, during this period when money was scarce, were necessarily few.
But the pioneer proved a host in himself.

Resigning the editorial charge of the _Liberator_ into the capable hands of Edmund Quincy, Garrison itinerated in the role of an anti-slavery lecturer in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, reviving everywhere the languishing interest of his disciples.

On the return of Collins in the summer of 1841, revival meetings and conventions started up with increased activity, the fruits of which were of a most cheering character.

At Nantucket, Garrison made a big catch in his anti-slavery net.

It was Frederick Douglass, young, callow, and awkward, but with his splendid and inimitable gifts flashing through all as he, for the first time in his life, addressed an audience of white people.