...ght as well have been a million. He went to prison, being incarcerated in a cell just vacated by a man who had been hanged for murder, and there he remained for seven weeks. At the end of that time Arthur Tappan , the big-hearted merchant of New York, learning the facts of the case, advanced the money needed to set Garrison free. Undeterred by his experience as a martyr, Garrison — who had returned ...