The following is the list of those in attendance, who became subscribers to the declaration that was promulgated:
Maine
David Thurston, Nathan Winslow, Joseph Southwick,
James F. Otis, Isaac
Winslow.
New Hampshire
David Campbell.
Massachusetts
Daniel Southmayd, Effingham C. Capron, Amos Phelps,
John G. Whittier,
Horace P. Wakefield, James Barbadoes, David T. Kimball,
Jr., Daniel E.
Jewitt, John R. Campbell, Nathaniel Southard, Arnold
Buffum, William
Lloyd Garrison.
Rhode Island
John Prentice, George W. Benson.
Connecticut
Samuel J. May, Alpheus Kingsley, Edwin A. Stillman,
Simeon Joselyn,
Robert B. Hall.
New York
Beriah Green, Lewis Tappan, John Rankin, William Green,
Jr., Abram T.
Cox, William Goodell, Elizur Wright, Jr., Charles
W. Denison, John
Frost.
New Jersey
Jonathan Parkhurst, Chalkly Gillinghamm, John McCullough, James White.
Pennsylvania
Evan Lewis, Edwin A. Altee, Robert Purviss, James
McCrummill, Thomas
Shipley, Bartholomew Fussell, David Jones, Enoch Mace,
John McKim,
Anson Vickers, Joseph Loughead, Edward P. Altee, Thomas
Whitson, John
R. Sleeper, John Sharp, Jr., James Mott.
Ohio
Milton Sutliff, Levi Sutliff, John M. Sterling.
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The writer finds it quite impossible to carry out the idea with which this chapter was begun, which was to furnish a catalogue embracing all active Anti-Slavery workers who were Abolitionists. Space does not permit. He will therefore condense by giving a portion of the list, the selections being dictated partly by claims of superior merit, and partly by accident.
As representative men and women of the East—chiefly of New England and New York—he gives the following:
David Lee Child, of Boston, for some time editor of the National Anti-Slavery Advocate. He was the husband of Lydia Maria Child, who wrote the first bound volume published in this country in condemnation of the enslavement of “those people called Africans”; Samuel E. Sewell, another Bostonian and a lawyer who volunteered his services in cases of fugitive slaves; Ellis Gray Lowell, another Boston lawyer of eminence; Amos Augustus Phelps, a preacher and lecturer, for whose arrest the slaveholders of New Orleans offered a reward of ten thousand dollars; Parker Pillsbury, another preacher and lecturer, who at twenty years of age was the driver of an express wagon, and with no literary education, but who, in order that he might better plead the cause of the slave, went to school and became a noted orator; Theodore Weld, who married Angelina Grimke, the South Carolina Abolitionist, and who as an Anti-Slavery advocate was excelled, if he was excelled, only by Henry Ward Beecher and Wendell