I seize a moment to thank you for your letter giving an account of your anti-slavery meetings and those of the Friends of Progress.  I am highly gratified to learn that the latter followed the example of the Progressive Friends at Longwood in favor of a dissolution of our blood-stained American Union.  I meant to have sent to you in season some resolutions or “testimony” on the subject, but circumstances prevented.  I felt perfectly satisfied however that all would go right with you and Aaron and Oliver Johnson present to enforce the true doctrine.  You must have had a soul-refreshing time, even though there appear to have been present what Emerson calls “The fleas of the convention."...  On Wednesday, there was a great popular demonstration here to inaugurate the statue of Warren.  Think of Mason, of Virginia, the author of the Fugitive Slave Bill, being one of the speakers on Bunker Hill!

[Autograph: 

  Yours for the triumph of liberty,
  Wm. Lloyd Garrison]

On this great tour Miss Anthony became so thoroughly aroused that she could no longer confine herself to written addresses, which seemed cold and formal and utterly unresponsive to the inspiration of the moment.  She threw them aside and used them thereafter only on rare occasions.  Her speeches from that time were made from notes or headings and among those used during the winter of 1857 are the following: 

Object of meeting; to consider the fact of 4,000,000 slaves in a Christian and republican government....  Everybody is anti-slavery, ministers and brethren.  There are sympathy, talk, prayers and resolutions in ecclesiastical and political assemblies.  Emerson says “Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed;” so anti-slavery prayers, resolutions and speeches avail nothing without action....  Our mission is to deepen sympathy and convert it into right action; to show that the men and women of the North are slave-holders, those of the South slave-owners.  The guilt rests on the North equally with the South, therefore our work is to rouse the sleeping consciences of the North....  No one is ignorant now.  You recognize the facts which we present.  We ask you to feel as if you, yourselves, were the slaves.  The politician talks of slavery as he does of United States banks, tariff or any other commercial question.  We demand the abolition of slavery because the slave is a human being, and because man should not hold property in his fellowman.  The politician demands it because its existence produces poverty and discord in the nation and imposes taxes on free labor for its support, since the government is dominated by southern rule....  We preach revolution; the politicians reform.  We say disobey every unjust law; the politician says obey them, and meanwhile labor constitutionally for repeal.

Accompaning these notes are many special incidents illustrating the evils of slavery.  With Miss