James G. Birney And His Times; the Genesis of the Republican Party With Some Account of Abolition Movements in the South Before 1828
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Wright's commission as agent, forbore to take part in what was still a purely local affair. The cause was progressing so well in the other Northern States that it was highly desirable to avoid dissension at the anniver- sary meeting. The no-government leaders attended in force — Henry 0. Wright, Oliver Johnson, Edmund Quin- cy, Samuel J. May, Orson S. Murray, W. L. Garrison, George W. Benson, and A. Dresser, were all present. Their only demonstrations were to offer a resolution expressing a des...ire that agents and members should not defend them- selves by physical strength against violence, which was defeated, receiving only nineteen votes ; and another to ap- point a committee which should " announce the judgment of the American Anti- Slavery Society concerning the common error that our enterprise is of a political and not religious character." The explosion of this bomb-shell was 300 JAMBS G. BIRNEY AND HIS TIMES. prevented by an adjournment. Oliver Johnson offered an- other deprecating the imposition by any anti-slavery society of " a religious or political test for the purpose of render- ing the anti-slavery cause subservient to the interests of ■ a sect or party, or of opposing existing organizations." What this meant was not understood then and can not be understood now ; it was ambiguous enough to satisfy everybody, and was not voted against by anybody.
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