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most outrageous manner, and exhibited a dreadfully malignant spirit.
There was a great deal of rambling discussion, to very little purpose.
Mrs. Folsom interrupted the proceedings 1 continually, and spoke in a very disorderly manner.
Mellen2 had a word to say at the eleventh hour.
But you will see the proceedings hereafter.
The clergy are out now, every Sabbath, preaching it up as a divine institution; but he who is3 Lord of the Sabbath, and who is himself the true rest, will confound them.
Gen. Harrison is elected President by an overwhelming majority.
At the late election, the great body of abolitionists violated their solemn pledges, and voted for party.
George Bradburn at the East, and John Rankin at the West, did a great deal of harm by supporting Harrison.
On Nantucket, there was but one scattering vote!
Poor Birney, it is estimated, has received some five or six thousand votes out of two millions and a half!
The farce is equally ludicrous and melancholy.
Yet the Emancipator, Friend of Man, and Abolitionist seem determined to keep it up.
New organization is drooping to its death.
Aside from the third-party movement in this State, it has no vitality.
In our meetings, we denounce it as the worst form of pro-slavery.
Rogers has his hands full in New Hampshire, but he is a4 moral Richard Coeur de Lion, and gives his blows thick and fast.
He writes both for the Standard and the Herald of Freedom. Bro. Johnson has been in New York for some weeks past, and5 will probably remain there during the winter, superintending the Standard.
James C. Jackson is actively engaged in lecturing in western New York.6 How they are getting along at New York, I do not know.
In this State, we are doing almost nothing.
We have not a single agent in the field—and yet this is the very season of the year when we ought to be up and doing.
I lecture as often as I can conveniently, but it is very difficult7 for me to be absent from Boston. . . .
I attended the State meeting of the Rhode Island A. S.8
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2 Dr. G. W. F. Mellen, another deranged spirit, who became even more troublesome than Mrs. Folsom, because easily made the tool of those who enjoyed the fun of egging him on and disturbing anti-slavery meetings.
6 He had, till relieved by Oliver Johnson, been doing yeoman service in editing the Standard.
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