Early Crusaders for Freedom

Introduction

Having indoctrinated "the Seventy" and dispatched them on their way, Weld Remained in New York. His throat was so aggravated that he settled to give it an extended rest, and on April 14 he relinquished as an agent. But if he could not talk, there was much he could manage at headquarters. He revised tracts. He counseled with the bureau managing assembly considering the position of agencies, an issue needing designing and Judgment if the centered agency was to use its restricted manpower to the best advantage (Edgington, pp. 255-80). If an agency verified unequal to his work, he was moved to a less tough area, men of anti-Masonic convictions were kept away from territories where Freemasonry was powerful, boring speakers were dispatched to locations where they could manage administrative or organizational work, men who were Competent to rendezvous the colonization contention were established in colonization's powerful holds. Agents were moved certainly changing as asserted by their aptitude.

Discussion

At first Weld had no name and no exact job at headquarters. He assisted while he could. He had considered the boring usual of agency work would stifle him, but he discovered it enormously exciting. Here he was at the very center of the antislavery action where he could watch the meshing of all the cogs. The agency was topped up with tourists from forenoon till night. He was engaged without letup, "with a dozen and more spectacular me with inquiries and considerations and a tap on the shoulder not less than as often as one time in a minute or two." Elizur Wright, Henry B. Stanton, Joshua Leavitt, and John Greenleaf Whittier, who comprised the agency employees, were certainly jabbering. "They buzz-hum, hum, buzz, buzz, all the time," Weld reported (Edgington, pp. 255-80).

Wright was boss receptionist and in general charge. Stanton, who had his Demonstrated proficiency in New England, had been conveyed to head agency to oversee a appeal campaign. Leavitt was a Yale graduate, forty-three years vintage, who had started to perform regulation, returned to Yale for a divinity stage, but after preaching for three years had become receptionist of the Seaman's Friend Society. Ranging broad in the restructure arena, he had based sailors' missions, amassed from evangelical hymnal, combated liquor and vice. An skilled reporter, his exceptional job was to edit the American Antislavery Society's paper, the Emancipator. He was fiery, cocky, self-confident, and his Massachusetts ...