When, pursuant to the call, on Tuesday, March 26, 1839, the Massachusetts Society met at Marlboroa Chapel,7 Stanton was on hand, and with him were Birney and Lewis Tappan, representing the New York Executive Committee. They were joyfully greeted by the leading schismatics, also present—not with the vain hope of reversing the judgment pronounced at the recent annual meeting, but in order to prevent reconciliation with the Parent Society, and so pave the way for their own ultimate recognition as ‘regular.’ Torrey was allowed to
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1 This was in singular anticipation of a letter from Gamaliel Bailey, jr., written to Mr. Garrison on April 15, 1839, concerning Boyle, who was just leaving the employ of the Philanthropist. Bailey paid a very high tribute to his coadjutor, and asked if any situation could be found for him at the East, suggesting his fitness to become the salaried editor of the NonResistant (Ms.) In July, 1839, Boyle was appointed lecturing and financial agent of the Ohio A. S. Society; at which time Oliver Johnson said of him in the Liberator (9.122), that probably there was no man living whose religious views were more in harmony with Mr. Garrison's.
2 Laura P. Boyle. Her letter was printed in Lib. 9: 56. In it, she states that she at first hesitated to join the Non-Resistance Society, being emancipated from sects, parties, and organizations generally.
3 Apr. 1, 1839.
4 This prognostication was verified (Lib. 9: 55). The scattering (A. S.) vote showed a falling-off.
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