...ed an appeal to the Christian public, and many of them went out into the world as protagonists of Abolition. Here was a miraculous draught indeed; for, of course, among them were men of mark; and Theodore D. Weld , the ringleader, was, as Johnson says, the peer of Beecher himself in native ability. Thus burst a seed-pod of Abolition. This propagative influence had been in Garrison's pamphlet. That pamphl...