[420] cause. It is the worst foe that liberty has to contend with— the most dangerous form of pro-slavery. This morning I go to Methuen, to attend the Essex County1 Convention. I expect we shall have to address bare walls; but, no matter. After all, believing that God is with us, we may confidently affirm that we are multitudinous as to number, and victorious as to principle. Abby Kelley will attend the meeting. She spoke eloquently and impressively at Springfield. She also addressed a public meeting of the Boston2 Female Anti-Slavery Society, in the Melodeon, last Wednesday3 evening. I was at Groton; but I hear that she acquitted 4 herself well. Mrs. Southwick was in the chair. Rogers has consented to write regularly for the editorial5 department of the Standard. Bro. Johnson is now in New6 York, and will probably remain until you return, superintending the paper. But the Executive Committee are suffering for the want of funds, and the Standard must soon, I fear, be ingloriously furled, in the presence of our enemies, unless some aid can be promptly obtained from abroad.7 There are some, at least, in England, who will try to help us. I was very unfortunate on my return from the Worcester Convention, having lost my wallet, containing upwards of8 fifty dollars in money, and an order to the amount of thirty dollars, besides sundry valuable papers. There is now no probability that I shall ever recover it. It is a severe loss for me in my poverty, though not a very large sum. I feel like an animal that has been denuded of its fur. But, ‘the Lord is my shepherd,’ and he will not fail to watch over me and mine.
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7 ‘We fear, here [in Boston], about the possibility of keeping up the Standard without a suspension. The friends at N. Y. are more sanguine. That true soul, J. S. Gibbons, has mortgaged his furniture to keep it flying’ (Ms. Dec. 31, 1840, E. Quincy to J. A. Collins).
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