It was there in communion with the young master that suggestions looking to the formation of an anti-slavery society, were doubtless first thrown out.
"The place was dark, unfurnitured and mean; Yet there the freedom of a race began." It was not all clear sailing for the editor of the _Liberator_ even with such choice spirits.

They did not always carry aid and comfort to him, but differences of opinions sometimes as well.

He did not sugar-coat enough the bitter truth which he was telling to the nation.

Some of them would have preferred _The Safety Lamp_ to the _Liberator_ as a title less likely to offend the prejudices of many good people.

Some again objected to the pictorial heading of the paper as an altogether unwise proceeding, and positively mischievous.