He did literally point at these men the finger of scorn.

Every device known to the printer's art for concentrating the reader's attention upon particular words and sentences, Garrison made skillful use of in his articles--from the deep damnation of the heavy black capitals in which he printed the name Francis Todd, to the small caps in which appeared the words, "sentenced to solitary confinement for life," and which he flanked with two terrible indices.

But the articles did not need such embellishment.

They were red hot branding irons without them.

One can almost smell the odor of burning flesh as he reads the words: "It is no worse to fit out piratical cruisers or to engage in the foreign slave-trade, than to pursue a similar trade along our coast; and the men who have the wickedness to participate therein, for the purpose of keeping up wealth should be ==>SENTENCED TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR LIFE; <==_they are the enemies of their own species--highway robbers, and murderers_; and their final doom will be, unless they speedily repent, _to occupy the lowest depths of perdition_.
I know that our laws make a distinction in this matter.