To escape an impending war they were nerved to do and dare and to incur great risks.

New England abolitionists who labored in harmony with those of the West and South were actuated by similar motives.

Sumner first gained public notice by a distinguished oration against war.
Garrison went farther: he was a professional non-resistant, a root and branch opponent of both war and slavery.

John Brown was a fanatical antagonist of war until he reached the conclusion that according to the Divine Will there should be a short war of liberation in place of the continuance of slavery, which was itself in his opinion the most cruel form of war.
Slavery as a legally recognized institution disappeared with the Civil War.

The war against intemperance has made continuous progress and this problem is apparently approaching a solution.