Garrison found occasion soon after his return from the World’s Convention for the employment of all his added effectiveness for continuing the moral movement against slavery.  For what with the strife and schism in the anti-slavery ranks, followed by the excitements of the long Presidential canvass of 1840, wherein the great body of the Abolitionists developed an uncontrollable impulse to political action, some through the medium of the new Liberty party which had nominated James G. Birney for the Presidency, while others reverted to the two old parties with which they had formerly acted—­what with all these causes the pure moral movement started by Garrison was in grave danger of getting abolished or at least of being reduced to a nullity in its influence upon public opinion.  John A. Collins, the able and resourceful general agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, wrote in the deepest anxiety to Garrison from New Bedford, September 1, 1840, on this head.  Says he:  “I really wish you understood perfectly the exact position the friends of the old organization hold to the two great political parties, and how generally they have been caught up in the whirlwind of political enthusiasm.  Could you but go where I have been, and have seen and heard what I have seen and heard; could you see men—­aye, and women, too—­who have been and still are your warmest advocates, who have eschewed sectarianism, and lost their caste in the circle in which they moved, for their strong adherence to your views and measures, declare that they would sooner forego their Abolitionism than their party....  Now, these are not the views of here and there a straggling Abolitionist, but of seven-tenths of all the voting Abolitionists of the State....  They are entirely unconscious of the demoralizing influence of their course.  They need light, warning, entreaty, and rebuke.”  Besides this demoralization of the Abolitionists, as described by Collins, the parent society at New York fell into bad financial straits.  It was absolutely without funds, and without any means of supplying the lack.  What should it do in its extremity but appeal to the Massachusetts Society which was already heavily burdened by its own load, the Liberator.  The new organ of the national organization, The Anti-Slavery Standard, surely must not be allowed to fail for want of funds in this emergency.  The Boston management rose to the occasion.  Collins was sent to England in quest of contributions from the Abolitionists of Great Britain.  But, great as was the need of money, the relief which it might afford would only prove temporary unless there could be effected a thorough anti-slavery revival.  This was vital.  And therefore to this end Garrison now bent his remarkable energies.