An able speech was made by Rev.A.A.Phelps, and a letter of mine addressed to the Secretary of the Society was read.

Whereupon he rose and stated that his views were in unison with those of the Society, and that after hearing the speech and the letter, he was ready to join it, and abide the probable consequences of such an unpopular act.

He lost by so doing his professorship.

He was an able member of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

He perished in the ill-fated steamer Lexington, which was burned on its passage from New York, January 13, 1840.