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the Philomathiaw fired their guns, week after week.
But that was not enough. We must have an
Anti Slavery Society. A Society was the universal
solvent for all wrongs. With a society we could
make ourselves felt in the tremendous issue.
Without a society we were nothing. We did not remember
those in bonds as bound with them.
Mr Johnson did not see it in that light. Mr
Median who was a Southern man, was believed
to be the hereditary far of freedom. Mr Taylor
did not share our enthusiasm. So the Society
was forbidden. Instantly the story was told in
the Liberation. Appeals to the public signed by the
students were published in the Boston papers. Mrs
Thompson & Phelps applied, I believe, for the use of
the Chapel & The South Chh, but were refused. The
Methodist Chh, was opened, and there they planted
their batteries. Night after night an eloquence,
really of a very high order was powered forth; And
all about an Anti Slavery Society in Phillips
Academy. No wonder we were excited. Were we
not plaed in the very [??] of this great
war. between liberty & slavery. Were not the Southern
bondmen all turning their eyes to Andover hill,
in hourly expectation of the news, that the Society
had been formed, and the dean of freedom began?