...eve in its efficacy. These New York men are in a more rational state of mind than Garrison was. When in 1833 Samuel J. May begged William Jay to join in forming a national Anti-Slavery Society, Jay paused. I suppose he had been reading the Liberator. He dedined to join, on the ground that the local Societies could do the work as well for the time being, and that the great objection to Anti-s...