Garrison wrote in The Liberator. “The brutal dastards and bloody-minded tyrants who have so long ruled the country with impunity are now furiously foaming at the mouth, gnawing their tongues for pain, indulging in the most horrid blasphemies, uttering the wildest threats, and avowing the most treasonable designs. Their passions, ‘set on fire of hell,’ are leading them into every kind of excess, and they are inspired by a demoniacal phrenzy.” Garrison quoted from the Book of Revelation to mark the South as the modern Babylon; he turned to the ancient Greeks—and John Brown—to declare, “Whom the
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