But I do not think he was advertised by us as reverend or publicly spoken of as a clergyman.

He may have been yet hanging on the skirts of the Unitarian movement.
But his career had become political, and his errand to New York was political.

He had given up preaching for some years, and embarked on the stormy waves of social politics, and had by his writings become an expositor of various theories of social reform, chiefly those of French origin.

So that the dominant note of his lectures was not by any means religious, but political.

He was at that time considered as identified with the Workingman's party, and came to New York to speak as one of our leaders.