It is the only policy we can and should adopt.

If it be pursued with truth, with courage and with firmness of purpose, I do firmly believe it will succeed." Mr.M.J.Barry, on the 7th of June, said, "It is perfectly plain to all that the purpose of the Association is to work out its object by means of moral force, and that only." In my letter to Mr.Ray, written long after the secession, I used these words: "The first (original rule of the Association) implies a pledge and an obligation to which every member of the Association bound himself.

Any member, who violates it, or would induce the Association to infringe it, must be false to his own vow and treacherous to the Association, whence he should be expelled with every mark of infamy." These proofs are taken at random: they range over the time before, after and contemporaneous with the secession.

They could be multiplied one hundredfold, and taken from the speeches and writings of every one of the seceders.

Yet that fact availed nothing--they were told, because "they differed from the rules laid down by the Liberator, they ceased to be members of the Association." This is, in some sort, a digression.