In 1847 Lucy Stone, an Oberlin graduate, began to address public audiences on the subject.

At the same time Susan B.Anthony appeared as a temperance lecturer.

The manner of their reception and the nature of their subject induced them to unite heartily in the pending crusade for the equal rights of women.

The three causes thus became united in one.
Along with the crusade against slavery, intemperance, and women's wrongs, arose a fourth, which was fundamentally connected with the slavery question: Quakers and Southern and Western abolitionists were ardently devoted to the interests of peace.

They would abolish slavery by peaceable means because they believed the alternative was a terrible war.