CHAPTER VII.
MASTER STROKES.
"Help came but slowly" to the reformer.

With a single instrument he had stirred the nation, as no other man had done, on the slavery question.
He had thrown the South into widespread excitement, and thawed the apathy of the North into widespread attention.

He had won an almost instant hearing for his cause.

But he knew that this was not enough.
Effective as he had shown the weapon of the press to be, it alone was unequal to the conduct of prolonged agitation.

And prolonged agitation Garrison clearly apprehended was to be the price of abolition.