ouragements, the publication of the _Liberator_, in
Boston; and by the energy and earnestness of his appeals, roused
the attention of many minds to the subject of slavery. Shortly
after, a society was formed in Boston in favor of immediate
emancipation. It consisted at first, if I remember right, of
only twelve members. Previous to this, however, a society,
embracing very similar principles, had been formed in
Pennsylvania. In 1833, upwards of sixty delegates from several
of the free States, met at Philadelphia; among them were Elizur
Wright and Beriah Green, (who had been compelled to give up
their Professorships in Western Reserve [Ohio] College, for
their attachment to freedom,) Lewis Tappan, William Lloyd
Garrison, Charles W. Denison, Arnold Buffum, Amos A. Phelps, and
John G. Whittier. This Convention organized the American
Anti-Slavery Society, proposing to make use of the common
instrumentalities afforded by the Government and laws, for the
abolition of slavery; at the same time, disavowing a design to
use any other than peaceful and lawful measures."

In some of the Southern States there are professing Christian churches
who permit slave-holding, but disallow the selling of slaves, except
with their own consent. Dr. Fussell informed me how this fair-seeming
rule of discipline was frequently evaded. First, a church member wishing
to turn his negroes into cash, begins by making their yoke heavier, and
their life a burden. Next they are thrown in the way of decoy slaves,
belonging to Woolfolk, or some other dealer, who introduce themselves to
the intended victims, for the purpose of expatiating on the privileges
enjoyed by the slaves of so indulgent a master as theirs; and thus the
poor unhappy dupes would be persuaded to go and petition to be sold, and
so the rule of discipline, above cited, would be _literally_ complied
with. So great, generally, is the dread of being sold to the South, that
my informant said the larger number of runaways escape when the price is
high, as the danger of being sold is then most imminent. The greater
proportion of those who thus emancipate themselves are domestics, owing
to their superior intelligence, and their opportunities of ascertaining
the best mode of escape.

On the 16th, I met the Executive Committee of the American and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society, at their office, No. 128 Fulton street, New York.
The