John G.Whittier, a noble friend in the North, was so touched at the news that, being too poor to furnish the money himself, he wrote to Henry Clay, begging him to release Garrison by paying the fine.

After forty-nine days of imprisonment he was set free.

Wendell Phillips said of him, "He was imprisoned for his opinion when he was twenty-four.

He had confronted a nation in the bloom of his youth." In Boston, with no money, friends, or influence, in a little upstairs room, Garrison started the "Liberator." Read the declaration of this poor young man with "no chance," in the very first issue: "I will be as harsh as truth, as uncompromising as justice.

I am in earnest.