Such was the genesis of the Non-Resistant, a journal which the next year will introduce to us. Before the end of December its publication as a semi-monthly was determined on, and the last number but one in the Liberators volume contained an announcement to that effect4 by the Executive Committee of the Non-Resistance Society. Meanwhile the new organization had received the anathema of the religious press, with hardly an 5 exception, and been expressly repudiated by the American6 Peace Society (its executive committee embracing Amasa Walker, Henry Ware, Jr., J. P. Blanchard, and George C. Beckwith), and by the New York Peace Society.7 When one reviews the various manifestations of antislavery activity during the year 1838—in which, as has
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