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the Philomathean fired their guns, week after week.
But that was not enough. The [must have are?]
Anti Slavery Society. A Society was the [?]
[?] for all wrongs. With a Society we could
make ourselves full in the tremendous issue.
Without a Society we were nothing. We did not re-
member 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 for of freedom. Mr Taylor
did not share our enthusiasm. So the Society
was forbidden. Instantly the story was told in
the Liberator. Appeals to the public signed by the
students were published in the Boston papers. Mr
Thompson & Phillips applied, I believe, for the use of
the Chapel & the South Chh. but were refused. The
Methodist Chh. was opened, and that they planted
their batteries. Right after might an eloquence,
really of a very high order was pounced forth; And
all about an Anti Slavery Society in Philips
Academy. [No wonder?] me more excited. Were ee
not placed in the very than mopylar of this great
war, between and slavery. Were not the South-
ern boundmen all lining their eyes to Andover hill,
in hourly expectation of the nicor, that the Society
had been formed, and the dawn of freedom began?

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