Back of him and the _Liberator_ he needed an organized force, coadjutors like Aaron and Hur to hold up his arms during the mighty conflict on which he had now entered with the slave interests of the country.

Those interests were organized, and because they were organized they were powerful.

The sentiment of freedom he determined to organize and to render it thereby invincible.

To organized wrong he designed to oppose organized right, confident that organized right would prevail in the end.

He had knowledge of the utility of temperance societies in advancing the cause of sobriety among the people.