[160]
Anti-Slavery Society is connected at all with the Liberator, as it gives the enemy some advantage in saying that the Society is responsible for all that I write and publish.
We are to have a Board meeting on Monday, expressly on this point; and what1 will be the result, I can hardly predict.
Probably friend Knapp and myself will have to resume the pecuniary responsibilities of the paper, but these will probably be met by some of our brethren.
If not, the paper cannot be sustained after the first of January next.
I feel somewhat at a loss to know what to do—whether to go into all the principles of holy reform, and make the abolition cause subordinate, or whether still to persevere in the one beaten track as hitherto.
Circumstances hereafter must determine this matter.
At the same date
Sarah Grimke, from the hospitable home of
Samuel Philbrick,
2 in
Brookline, Mass., was reporting to
Henry C. Wright:
Dear Angelina is quite troubled: she is more downcast3 than I have yet seen her, because our coming forth in the antislavery cause seems really to be at the bottom of this clerical defection. . . . Brothers Whittier and Weld are anxious4 we should say nothing on the woman question; but I do not feel as if I could surrender my right to discuss any great moral subject.
If my connection with Anti-slavery must continue at the expense of my conscience, I had far rather be thrown out of the anti-slavery ranks; but our business at present seems to
