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  • [156] Colonization Society has blinded the eyes of benevolent men in relation to the design and tendency of the society;
  • 3d, enlisting able and eloquent advocates to plead our cause;
  • 4th, inducing editors of periodicals and able writers to give us the weight of their influence;
  • 5th, exciting a spirit of emulation in the redemption of our slave population among the numerous female anti-slavery societies;
  • 6th, procuring a large collection of anti-slavery documents, tracts, pamphlets, and volumes, which will furnish us with an inexhaustible supply of ammunition.

These were indeed some of the grand results of laborious weeks. His mission was ended. He was profoundly grateful to the good God for its success. The great movement which he had started against oppression in his own country was awaiting his aggressive leadership. He did not tarry abroad, therefore, but set sail from London August 18, 1833, for New York, where he landed six weeks later.

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