In its insane fright it would have made short shrift of the editor of the _Liberator,_ had he by accident, force, or fraud have fallen into the clutches of its laws.

The Georgia reward of five thousand dollars was as Mr.Garrison put it, "a bribe to kidnappers." The Southern method of dealing with the agitation within the slave States was violent and effective.

There could be no agitation after the agitators were abolished.

And the Southern method was to abolish the agitators.
The suppression of Abolitionism within the slave States was no difficult matter, but its suppression at the North was a problem of a wholly different nature, as the South was not long in finding out.

It would not understand why its violent treatment of the disease within its jurisdiction could not be prescribed as a remedy by the non-slave-holding half of the Union within its borders.