Now, these are not the views of here and there a straggling Abolitionist, but of seven-tenths of all the voting Abolitionists of the State....

They are entirely unconscious of the demoralizing influence of their course.

They need light, warning, entreaty, and rebuke." Besides this demoralization of the Abolitionists, as described by Collins, the parent society at New York fell into bad financial straits.

It was absolutely without funds, and without any means of supplying the lack.

What should it do in its extremity but appeal to the Massachusetts Society which was already heavily burdened by its own load, the _Liberator_.