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- assail the Emigrant Aid Company & even
- kept a correspondent in Kansas for that
- purpose whose published letters de-
- plored the sending of colonies to Kansas
- In May 1855 in the very height of the
- Kansas strength Mr. Garrison held
- his annual convention in new York
- City. They passed a long string of reso-
- lutions against clergymen calling ˄them all
- the hard names in, & after genesis.
- At that very time these Clergymen
- were the active, earnest and hopeful advo-
- cates of the plan of the Emigrant Aid Co.
- Hundreds of them through the influence
- of Rev. E. E. Hale became life members
- of the Company. In every place where
- duty called me in raising colonies, if
- there was no hall, or if the hall was in
- use, the church was opened & the
- clergyman never failed to add his
- exhortation to my remarks. Dr. Bacon
- of new Haven did more perhaps than
- any other one to raise & equip the splendid
- colony of Charles B. Lines which founded
- Waubonse (sic.) {Wabaunsee} in Kansas. Twice I had his
- church for a lecture on Kansas. Twice
- I had Henry Ward Beecher & his conger-
- gation subscribed more money for Kansas
- than any other.
