cause or another, was hard to get at by the Massachusetts Board, and the treasury in New York was in an extremely low state.  The relations between the two boards were, as we have seen, much strained and neither side was in the mood to cover with charity the shortcomings of the other.  Perhaps the board at New York was too exacting, perhaps the board at Boston was not sufficiently zealous, under the circumstances.  But what were the real irritating causes which kept the two boards at loggerheads over the matter need not here be determined.  This fact is clear that the arrangement was rescinded by the New York management, and their agents thrown into Massachusetts.  This action only added fuel to a fire which was fast assuming the proportions of a conflagration.  All the anti-Garrisonians formed themselves into a new anti-slavery society, and the National Board, as if to burn its bridges, and to make reconciliation impossible, established a new paper in Boston in opposition to the Liberator.  The work of division was ended.  There was no longer any vital connection between the two warring members of the anti-slavery reform.  To tear the dead tissues asunder which still joined them, all that was wanted was another sharp shock, and this came at the annual meeting of the National Society in 1840 over the woman’s question.  The issue, “Shall a woman serve with men on a committee?” was precipitated upon the convention by the appointment of that brilliant young Quakeress, Abby Kelley, on the business committee with ten men.  The convention confirmed her appointment by about a hundred majority in a total vote of 1,008.  Whereupon those opposed to this determination of the question, withdrew from the convention and organized the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.  Garrison had triumphed and he was immensely elated with his victory.  His moral leadership was definitely established, never again to be disputed by his disciples and followers.

CHAPTER XV.

RANDOM SHOTS.

The division of the anti-slavery organization into two distinct societies did not immediately terminate the war between them.  From New York and the American society the contest over the woman’s question was almost directly shifted after the triumph of the Garrisonians in the convention, to London and the World’s Convention, which was held in the month of June of the year 1840.  To this anti-slavery congress both of the rival anti-slavery organizations in America elected delegates.  These delegates, chosen by the older society and by its auxiliaries of the States of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, were composed of women and men.  Lucretia Mott was not only chosen by the National Society, but by the Pennsylvania Society as well.  The Massachusetts Society selected Lydia Maria Child, Maria Weston Chapman, and Ann Green Phillips together with their husbands among its list of delegates.  England at this time