This challenge was presented four times before the agent of colonization could be persuaded to accept it.

Garrison was bent on a joint public discussion between himself and Mr.Cresson.But Mr.Cresson was bent on avoiding his opponent.

He skulked under one pretext or another from vindicating the colonization scheme from the seven-headed indictment preferred against it by the agent of the New England Anti-Slavery Society.

As Cresson could not be driven into a joint discussion with him there was nothing left to Garrison but to go on without him.

His arraignment and exposure of the society in public and private was thorough and overwhelming.