He had the same experience when the formation of an Abolition society was under consideration.

He was confronted with this benevolent aversion to giving offence by calling things by their right names.

But much as he desired to have his friends and followers organized for associated action, where a principle was at stake he was with them as with slavery itself absolutely inflexible and uncompromising.

He was for organizing on the principle of immediate emancipation.

A few deemed that ground too radical and revolutionary, and were for ranging themselves under the banner of Gradualism, thinking to draw to their ranks a class of people, who would be repelled by Immediatism.