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anti-slavery in the little Methodist
church at the foot of the hill on
the right hand as you go "down
town." The Faculty of the Seminary & in
fact, nearly all the orthodox clergy-
men of N. Eng. & the whole country,
looked with disfavor upon the
anti-slavery movement, & denoun-
ced Geo. Thompson as an emissary
of the British Government, to dis-
turb the peace of our country & as
an infidel & an atheist.

Almost every pulpit in the whole
country fulminated against Geo
Thompson. W^m^ Lloyd Garrison. Henry C.
Wright. Parker Pillsbury. Wendel Phillips
et genus omne.

While Geo. Thompson was in
Andover, many of the students of the
Seminary & of the Academy attended
his lectures--in spite of the male-
dictions of Prof. Stewart et al. of
Andover. Dr Beecher of [Lowe?] Seminary