sentences: [They] gave the cause moral power at the outset; and left the allies of slavery no arguments but detraction and mobs.” (p.43)
  
  “A call dated August 16, 1834, for a state convention to form a Maine Antislavery Society, to be held on the third Wednesday of October in Augusta, was sent over the state for signatures…
  
  “George Thompson had come over from England.The work being accomplished there, for Britain emancipation had now become law, though with the apprenticeship provision, which was soon struck out.