Christ, as represented by those who are called by his name, has proved a dead failure, as a power to free the slaves. John Brown is and will be a power far more efficient. The Natick Resolution was well-recognized immediately prior to the American Civil War as a leading document of militant abolitionism. Clarke's former associates in the pacifist movement claimed he had abandoned his principles of non-violence. Henry Clarke Wright's radical notions and writings had a profound effect on abolitionism and the society in which he lived. After his militant writings, he spent the rest of his life as a freelance author and lecturer throughout the Midwest. Wright died in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1870. An irritated Henry Thoreau describes in his journal a visit of Wright to Concord and the Thoreau home in June of 1853. He wrote, in part:"I was awfully pestered with his benignity; feared I should get greased all over with it past restoration... W. addressed me as "Henry" within one minute from the time I first laid eyes on him, and when I spoke, he said with drawling, sultry sympathy, "Henry, I know all you would say; I understand you perfectly; you need not explain anything to me;" and to another, "I am going to dive into Henry's innermost depths." I said, "I trust you will not strike your head against the bottom."