Here is an example of the interest which it excited and the converts which it made: "Last Monday evening was our Law Club meeting, and I had the great satisfaction of hearing Judge Mellen, our Chief-Justice, say he had read your 'Thoughts,' was a thorough convert to your views, and was ready to do all in his power to promote them.

Mr.Longfellow [father of Henry W.Longfellow] was present also, and with equal warmth and clearness expressed himself also in favor of your views.

This is getting the two first men in the State for talents and influence in benevolent effort.

I have no doubt they will head the list of those who will subscribe to form here an anti-slavery society.

Mr.Greenleaf [Simon] also, will cordially come in, and I need not say he is one of the first [men] in the State, for his character is known." This quotation is made from a letter of General Samuel Fessenden, of Portland, Me., to Mr.Garrison, dated December 14, 1832.
Among the remarkable minds which the "Thoughts" disillusioned in respect of the character and tendency of the Colonization Society were Theodore D.Weld, Elizur Wright, and Beriah Green, N.P.Rogers, William Goodell, Joshua Leavitt, Amos A.Phelps, Lewis Tappan, and James Miller McKim.
Garrison's assertion that "the overthrow of the Colonization Society was the overthrow of slavery itself," was, from the standpoint of a student of history, an exaggerated one.