The vote which he received was a little over seven thousand, but four years later he was again the candidate of the party and received over sixty thousand votes.

He suffered an injury during the following year which condemned him to hopeless invalidism and brought his public career to an end.
Though Lundy and Birney were contemporaries and were engaged in the same great cause, they were wholly independent in their work.

Lundy addressed himself almost entirely to the non-slaveholding class, while all of Birney's early efforts were "those of a slaveholder seeking to induce his own class to support the policy of emancipation." Though a Northern man, Lundy found his chief support in the South until he was driven out by persecution.

Birney also resided in the South until he was forced to leave for the same reason.

The two men were in general accord in their main lines of policy: both believed firmly in the use of political means to effect their objects; both were at first colonizationists, though Lundy favored colonization in adjacent territory rather than by deportation to Africa.
Women were not a whit behind men in their devotion to the cause of freedom.