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distribution on the part of auxiliary societies.
More than this our cause does not require.
An effort will be made, by the plotters, at the annual meeting, to wholly change this publication—and perhaps with success.
The “woman question” will also be another bone of contention.
Whichever way it may be decided, we may expect to see a withdrawal from the Society; but if it be decided right, I care not how many of the sectarians leave.
The less we have of them, the better.
I am inclined to think that bros.
Scott and Colver will both go in favor of a new1 paper. If this hostility to the Liberator were carried on openly, I should care little about it; but it is fomented secretly, and in a mean and treacherous manner.
I could tell you some instructive facts and occurrences, had I more room. . . .
In the next paper, I mean to throw out signals, to call in to2 the annual meeting all the unflinching and trusty friends of our cause in this State and elsewhere.
I shall call no names, but plainly allude to what is brewing. . . .
Within two days, my head has troubled me, something after the manner of last winter.
My Report is not yet begun, but it shall be ready—rely upon it.
The editorial page of the
Liberator for January 11, 1839, was well calculated to disturb the secret plotters against its existence.
First, in order, to arrest their attention, was a letter from
Wendell Phillips to the committee charged with its financial management:
‘I regard,’ wrote he,
the success of the Liberator as 3 identical with that of the abolition cause itself.
Though so bitterly
