He was paid $150 or $175 as a _quid pro quo_ for his interest in the _Liberator_.

Unfortunate in the business of a publisher, he was yet more unfortunate in another respect.

He had become a victim of intemperance.

His inebriety increased upon him, accelerated, no doubt, by his business failure.

Notwithstanding Garrison's strong and tender friendship for Knapp, the broken man came to regard him as an enemy, and showed in many ways his jealousy and hatred of his old friend and partner.