Except in a few districts in the border States, these measures were successful.

Public profession of abolitionism was suppressed.

The violence of the mob was of much longer duration in the North and reached its height in the years 1834 and 1835.

But Northern mobs only quickened the zeal of the abolitionists and made converts to their cause.

The attempt to substitute repressive state legislation had the same effect, and the use of church authority for making an end of the agitation for human liberty was only temporarily influential.
As early as 1838 the Presbyterian Church was divided over questions of doctrine into Old School and New School Presbyterians.