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 In 1833 the American Anti-slavery Society was organised, and the "declaration of sentiments" was drawn up by Garrison and adopted with but slight alterations. Arthur Tappan was chosen President; Elizur Wright, William Lloyd Garrison, and Dr. Cox, secretaries. Dr. Samuel J. May was one of the Vice-presidents, and on the Board of Managers we find the names of John G. Whittier and Benjamin Lundy.

Lloyd Garrison found many women willing to aid him in his advocacy of immediate emancipation. Among the more familiar names to us are Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, Miss Abby Kelley, and Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose. In 1837, two Quaker ladies, named Sarah and Angelina Grimké, produced some stir in the United States. They had been South Carolina slaveholders, but had liberated their slaves and come North to work in the cause of emancipation. Many Abolitionists disapproved of women publicly advocating abolition, and a still larger number seemed to object to women holding any official position in the society. In consequence of this and other causes of dissension a great number of members left the original society and formed a new one, called the Foreign and American Anti-Slavery Society. Among those who had been connected with the old society from the beginning, and who now left it, we find the honored name of John G. Whittier.