garrison's outspoken anti-slavery views repeatedly put him in danger. besides his imprisonment in baltimore and the price placed on his head by the state of georgia, he was the object of vituperation and frequent death threats. on the eve of the civil war, a sermon preached in a universalist chapel in brooklyn, new york, denounced "the blood thirsty sentiments of garrison and his school; and did not wonder that the feeling of the south was exasperated, taking as they did, the insane and bloody ravings of the garrisonian traitors for the fairly expressed opinions of the north."