upon earth to deliver our land from its deadliest curse to wipe out the foulest stain which rests upon our national escutcheon and to secure to the colored population of the United States all the rights and privileges which belong to them as men and as Americans come what may to our persons, our interests, or our reputation - whether we live to witness the triumph of LIBERTY, JUSTICE, and HUMANITY, or perish untimely as martyrs in this great, benevolent, and holy

cause.

Done at Philadelphia, the 6th day of December, A. D. 1833.

INDEX.

A.

Abolitionists, urge immediate emancipation, 111; advocate education of col
ored youth, 119; attempt to put them down by law, 213-219.-

Adams, John Quincy, his estimate of the Union, 342.

Adams, Dr. Nehemiah, drafts Pastoral Letter, 262; addresses questions to
slaveholders and is rebuked by Gov. Wise, 269.

"African Repository," The, extract from, 103.

Alton, Ill., riot in, and death of Mr. Lovejoy, 226.
American churches favor slavery, 70.

American Board hostile to anti-slavery, 74.

American Bible Society, its neglect of the slaves, 157; proposition from
Anti-Slavery Society ignored, 157.

American Tract Society mutilates publications in the interests of slavery,
185.

American Union for the relief and improvement of the colored race, 189;
pro-slavery in its character, 189; its carly death, 190.

American Anti-Slavery Society, organized in New York, 145; delegates in→→→→
sulted, 149; spirit of the convention, 149; its declaration of sentiments,
152; closing address of the president, 154; begins operations in New
York, 155; its officers, 155; large subscriptions for its work, 156; its
first anniversary, 157; sends its publications to the South, 191; excite-
ment in consequence, 192; publications burned in Charleston, 193; clergy
approve the deed, 193; society admits women, 286; protest against the
measure, 286; scheme for rescinding the action, 287; meeting in New
York, 290; admission of women confirmed, 291; withdrawal of certain
members and organization of new society, 292; bad effects of the
secession, 319; the organization still formidable, 320; its management
transferred from New York to Boston, 322; its anniversary in New York
in 1850 disturbed by the Rynders mob, 381; driven from New York for
two years, 381; Mr. Garrison advocates its dissolution in 1864, and his
withdrawal, 388; Mr. Quincy's concurrence with Mr. Garrison, 388;
the author's view of the subject, 388; the continuance of the society
voted, 389; declaration of sentiments, 473.

American Abolition Society, 340.

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society organized, 292; comments on,
293-294; testimony of Lewis Tappan concerning, 294; the new society
a failure, 296.

American Missionary Association, 296.

American slavery and Methodism, 237.

Andrew, J. O., Methodist bishop, 240.

Anti-Slavery meetings, ministers reluctant to pray in, 72.

Anti-Slavery Society, the first, 83; meetings and organization, 83-86; its
preamble and constitution, 85-86; original members, 86; its first officers,
87; its appeal to the public, 89.

Anti-Slavery sentiment, clerical, 140; declaration of, 140; its substance, 141;
eminent signers, 141.

Anti-Slavery Society in Lane Seminary organized, 169; anti-slavery agita-

tion, progress in, 182.

"Anti-Slavery Bugle," The, 324.

Anti-Slavery workers, various, 333.

Apologies for slavery, 159.

Attitude of the churches, 159-

Appendix, 404-421.

Austin, James T., defends the Alton mob, in Faneuil Hall, 228; rebuked by
Wendell Phillips, 229.

B.

Bacon, Benj. C., member first anti-slavery society, 86.

Bacon, Rev. Dr. Leonard, champion of Colonization, 104; his opinion of
slavery, 104.

Baltimore, Garrison's arrival there, 28; its slave traffic, 30; Garrison's views
denounced, 31; efforts to crush the new movement, 32.

Bailey, Dr. Gamaliel, edits "The Philanthropist," 222.

Baptists, Freewill, their anti-slavery record, 81; refuse to commune with
slaveholders, 81.

Baptists, their complicity with slavery, 244.

Barnes, Albert, his declaration concerning slavery, 156; his view of the duty
of the churches, 247.

Beecher, Edward, 224.

Beecher, Lyman, disapproves of Garrison's views, 44-45; becomes president
of Lane Seminary, 165; his course with the students, 167; discourages
discussion of the slavery question, 174; sacrifices a great opportunity,
177.
Beecher, Henry Ward, his charge of bitterness against Mr. Garrison, 56.
Bible, The, Mr. Garrison's opinion of, 365.
Birney, James G., 190; emancipates his slaves, 190; joins the abolitionists,
192; his characteristics, 191; persecuted in the South, 220; establishes
a paper in Danville, Ky., 220; removes it to Ohio, 221; citizens of Cin-
einnati demand its suppression, 221; its office destroyed by a mob, 222,
his testimony concerning the churches, 247g

Blagden, Rev. Dr., reports concerning, 275.

Boston, Thompson robbed in, 136; pro-slavery demonstration in, 195; fe-
male anti-slavery society attacked, 196; Mr. Garrison mobbed and
lodged in jail, 198-

"Boston Courier," The, prints letters from Garrison while in prison, 35;
favors suppression of “ The Liberator," 213-

Bowring, John, regrets exclusion of women from London Conference, 350.
Bradford, Rev. Arthur B., 250.

Bright, John, speech at the Garrison breakfast in London, 353-354.

Brougham, Lord, speech by, 97.

Buffum, Arnold, lecturing agent, 94; battles with the Colonization Society

94; debate with Mr. Danforth, 116.

Burleigh, Charles C. and Wm. H., 127.

Buxton, Sir T. F., first interview with Garrison, 133.

C.

Canterbury, Conn., Miss Crandall's School at, 124.

Caste, Spirit of, 102.

Channing Dr., Remarks on Milton, 59; his tribute to abolitionists, 201;
condemns the Alton riot, 227; his view of the Constitution, 336.

Chapman, Maria Weston, her work, 205-206.

Charleston, S. C., post-office broken open by a mob, 192; anti-slavery
mail-matter burned in, 193.

Child, David Lee, member first anti-slavery society, 86; edits "Anti-
Slavery Standard," 297.

Child, Lydia Maria, her "Appeal," 139; edits "Anti-Slavery Standard,"
297.

"Christian Advocate, The," abuses abolitionists, 158

Christianity, elevated by the anti-slavery movement, 371, 372.

Churches, Attitude of, 234.-

Cincinnati, Lane Seminary, founded in, 165; pro-slavery sentiment of the
city, 171; Wattles' colored school in, persecuted, 171.
Clarkson on the Slave Trade, 373.

Clerical Abolitionists, Appeal of, 275; replied to by Mr. Garrison and A. A.
Phelps, 276; its author afterwards retracts, 276.

Coffin, Joshua, member first anti-slavery society, 86.

College for colored youths proposed, 120; scheme considered in colored
convention, 121; opposition to, 122

Colleges, Northern, prevent agitation among students, 185.

Collins, John A., 290, 300.

Colonization Scheme, Mr. Garrison's exposure of, 130; its repudiation by
English abolitionists, 130.

Colonization Society, Dr. Beecher's appeal for, 89; Mr. Garrison's reply,
89; opposed by Arnold Buffum, 91; its prejudice against the negro,
103; Garrison's battle with, 112; Garrison's Thoughts" on, 114; col-
ored people opposed to, 117; their protests, 118.

Colored Lad, Anecdote of, 101.

Colored People, their expulsion from the country impracticable, 119.
Colored Youth, Education of, 119.

Colorphobia Illustrated, 100.

"Columbia (S. C.) Telescope," extract from, 186.

Congregational Association of Mass., pastoral letter by, 262; comments on,
268-265; Whittier's poem on, 265–267.

Conservative Anti-Slavery Society organized in Boston, 188; its failure,
190.

Constitution, demoralizing influence of, 338; claimed by some to be anti-
slavery, 339; fallacy of the claim, 349; Garrison's remarks thereon, 341.
Converse, Rev. A., opposes education of the blacks, 122.

Covenanters, Old School, opposed to slavery, 250.

Cox, Dr. S. H., preaches against slavery, 162.

Crandall, Prudence, her school for young ladies at Canterbury, Conn., 124;
admits colored pupil, 124; her school denounced in town meeting, 125;
receives new pupils, 125; persecutions commenced, 126; committed to
jail, 127; her house attacked and fired, 127.

Crandall, Dr. Reuben, thrown into jail in Washington, 218.

Curtis, Geo., of R. I., opposes Southern demands, 215.

D.

Danforth, Rev. Joshua N., his sncers at the anti-slavery movement, 87;
challenge to debate, 116; attacks Mr. Buffum, 116.

Day of Small Things, poem by Lowell, 471.

District of Columbia, slavery in discussed, 327.

Disunion, question of, 334.

Douglass, Frederick, criticises the Free Soil movement, 315.

Dred Scott Decision, its influence on the country, 380.

Dresser, Amos, flogged as an abolitionist in Nashville, Tenn., 218.