I know that the man who is allowed to freight his vessel with slaves at home, for a distant market, would be thought worthy of death if he should take a similar freight on the coast of Africa; but I know, too, that this distinction is absurd, and at war with the common sense of mankind, and that God and good men regard it with abhorrence.
"I recollect that it was always a mystery in Newburyport how Mr.Todd contrived to make profitable voyages to New Orleans and other places, when other merchants, with as fair an opportunity to make money, and sending to the same ports at the same time invariably made fewer successful speculations.

The mystery seems to be unravelled.

Any man can gather up riches if he does not care by what means they are obtained." A copy of the _Genius_, containing this article Garrison sent to the owner of the ship _Francis_.

What followed made it immediately manifest that the branding irons of the reformer had burned home with scarifying effect.

Mr.Todd's answer to the strictures was a suit at law against the editors of the _Genius_ for five thousand dollars in damages.