victim to consumption, dying at the house of his brother in Braintree. His last effort to guide a pen was in the attempt to append his name to the declaration of sentiment printed with the lectures of Mr. Phelps. His paper was ruled for him, and all things prepared. He took the pen, traced all the letters of his first name, but found that one of them was transposed, laid down the pen calmly and said: "I can write no more - I've blundered here. Brother, will you write my name and give the date and place where I am? Those principles are eternal truths, and cannot be shaken. I wish to give them my testimony." One of the first of Whittier's anti-slavery poems-perhaps, with the exception of his Lines to Garrison, the very first is his tribute to this noble man, from which I select these stanzas:

"Thou hast fallen in thine armor,
Thou martyr of the Lord!

With thy last breath crying 'Onward!'
And thy hand upon thy sword.

The haughty heart derideth,
And the sinful lip reviles,
But the blessing of the perishing
Around thy pillow smiles.

Oppression's hand may scatter
Its nettles on thy tomb,
And even Christian bosoms
Deny thy memory room;
For lying lips shall torture
Thy mercy into crime,
And the slanderer shall flourish
As the bay-tree, for a time.

But, where the south wind lingers
On Carolina's pines,

Or, falls the careless sunbeam
Down Georgia's golden mines;
Where now beneath his burden
The toiling slave is driven;
Where now a tyrant's mockery
Is offered unto Heaven -

Beriah Green was called to the presidency of the Oneida Institute, where, as teacher and preacher for many years, he exerted a great influence, being widely known and beloved. He was equally eloquent with voice and pen. Professor Wright was called to serve the American Anti-Slavery Society, shortly afterwards formed, as Corresponding Secretary - an office that he filled with consummate ability for four or five years. The annual reports from his pen were masterly presentations of the society's principles and objects. He edited the society's publications, "The Emancipator," "Human Rights," "Anti-Slavery Record," and "Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine," making them all powerful agents for promoting the cause. At a later date he was editor of "The Massachusetts Abolitionist," and later still of a Boston daily paper, "The Chronotype."

Mr. Garrison's account of what he had seen and heard in England greatly encouraged the friends of the cause, and he was himself no less cheered when he found, on his return, that a call had been issued for a convention to meet in Philadelphia on the 4th, 5th and 6th of the ensuing December, to form a National AntiSlavery Society. He entered into the project with all his heart. The public mind was in an exceedingly fev

erish condition. The enemies of the anti-slavery cause, seeing that it was rapidly gaining ground, and stung to madness by what they called the "impertinent interference" of Wilberforce and other English Abolitionists with the "domestic institutions" of the United States, began to show symptoms of a purpose to resort to violence in order to suppress the agitation. The formation of an Anti-Slavery Society in New York, which took place on the day of Garrison's landing in the city on his return from England, was made the occasion of a mob. The Abolitionists defeated their opponents by a ruse. Foreseeing that their meeting, if held at the place where it was first appointed, would be broken up, they went to the old Chatham Street Chapel, where they organized their society, and then retired through a rear door as the mob entered at the front. The disturbers encountered but one man, the noble old Quaker, Isaac T. Hopper, who, when his fellow Abolitionists retired, concluded to stay and see what the mob would do. He was found sitting in imperturbable quiet, in a meditative mood, on one of the benches, not in the least disturbed by the entrance of the mob, whom he badgered and shamed by his unfailing wit. The mob was instigated by the press, notably by James Watson Webb's "Courier and Enquirer" and Colonel Stone's "Commercial Advertiser." Not that these papers, in so many words, recommended a resort to violence, but that their inflammatory denunciations and misrepresentations of the Abolitionists were precisely adapted, if not even intended, to produce that result.

This mob occurred after the call for the National Convention was issued. If it had occurred sooner, possibly the Convention might have been delayed, and possibly it might not. The Abolitionists, though courageous, were not reckless. They did not desire to provoke violence; far from it. But they felt that their

cause was just that God was on their side; and they were sure that, whatever of reproach, persecution or violence they might be called to endure, the cause would eventually triumph. They were resolved to act a worthy part, as men and Christians who loved their country, and who meant, by the help of God, to deliver it from the crime and curse of human bondage. And so they held their Convention.

IX.

Formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society - Character and Spirit of the Convention - The Declaration of Sentiments Drafted by Garrison - Close of the Convention - The Society Begins its Work - Headquarters in New York - The First Anniversary - The Bible Society Tested and Found Wanting – Hostility of the Press — Attitude of the Churches — Apologies for Slavery-Mobs - Judge Jay-W. I. Emancipation.

THE National Convention which met in Philadelphia Dec. 4, 1833, to form the American Anti-Slavery Society, was a very remarkable body of men, and its proceedings were of the highest interest and importance from their bearing upon the progress of the cause and the welfare of the nation. It was composed of sixty-two delegates from eleven different States. Without a single exception, I believe, they were Christian men, most of them members, and a dozen or so ministers of evangelical or Orthodox churches. Only two or three of the small denomination of Unitarians were present, but one of these, the late Samuel J. May, was a host in himself. Both branches of the Society of Friends, Orthodox and Hicksite, were represented. I was not myself a member of the Convention. Before it was called I left Boston for a visit to Ohio, under circumstances which made my attendance impossible. This to me has been a subject of life-long regret, for no public gathering during the whole antislavery struggle was more memorable than this. It was composed of men, most of whom had never seen each other before, but who were drawn together by convictions and purposes as high as any that ever animated the human soul. They were of one heart and