Phillips; Henry Brewster Stanton, a very vigorous Anti-Slavery editor and the husband of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the champion of women’s rights; Theodore Parker, the great Boston divine; O.B.  Frothingham, another famous preacher; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the writer; Samuel Johnson, C.L.  Redmond, James Monroe, A.T.  Foss, William Wells Brown, Henry C. Wright, G.D.  Hudson, Sallie Holley, Anna E. Dickinson, Aaron M. Powell, George Brodburn, Lucy Stone, Edwin Thompson, Nathaniel W. Whitney, Sumner Lincoln, James Boyle, Giles B. Stebbins, Thomas T. Stone, George M. Putnam, Joseph A. Howland, Susan B. Anthony, Frances E. Watkins, Loring Moody, Adin Ballou, W.H.  Fish, Daniel Foster, A.J.  Conover, James N. Buffum, Charles C. Burleigh, William Goodell, Joshua Leavitt, Charles M. Denison, Isaac Hopper, Abraham L. Cox.

To the above should be added the names of Alvin Stewart of New York, who issued the call for the convention that projected the Liberty party, and of John Kendrick, who executed the first will including a bequest in aid of the Abolition cause.

And here must not be omitted the name of John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, who was a candidate for the Presidency on the Liberty party ticket, and also a conspicuous member of the U.S.  Senate.

Going westward, we come to Ohio, which became, early in the movement, the dominating center of Abolitionist influence.  Salmon P. Chase was there.  James G. Birney, after being forced out of Kentucky, was there.  Ex-United States Senator Thomas Morris, a candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the Liberty party ticket, was there.  Leicester King and Samuel Lewis, Abolition candidates for the governorship of the State, were there.  Joshua R. Giddings and United States Senator Ben.  Wade were there.

One great advantage the Ohio Abolitionists enjoyed was that they were harmonious and united.  In the East that was not the case.  There was a bitter feud between the Garrisonians, who relied on moral suasion, and the advocates of political action.  All Ohio Abolitionists were ready and eager to employ the ballot.

There is another name, in speaking of Ohio, that must not be omitted.  Dr. Townsend was the man who made Salmon P. Chase a United States Senator, and at a time when the Abolition voting strength in Ohio was a meager fraction in comparison with that of the old parties—­numbering not over one in twenty.  It happened to be a time when the old parties—­the Whigs and the Democrats—­had so nearly an equal representation in the State Legislature that Townsend, who was a State Senator, and two co-operating members, held a balance of power.  Both parties were exceedingly anxious to control the Legislature, as that body, under the State constitution then in force, had the distribution of a great deal of patronage.  The consideration for the deciding vote demanded by Townsend and his associates was the election of Chase to the Senate.  They and the Democrats made the deal.  Naturally enough, the Whigs expressed great indignation until it was shown that they had offered to enter into very much the same arrangement.