Yet even so the Friends had differences of opinion as to fit methods of action.

Not only did many of them disapprove of rendering aid to fugitives but they also objected to the use of the meetinghouses for anti-slavery lectures.

The formation of the Liberty party served to accentuate the division.

The great body of the Friends were anti-slavery Whigs.
A crisis in the affairs of the Society of Friends in the State of Indiana was reached in 1843 when the radicals seceded and organized an independent "Anti-Slavery Friends Society." Immediately there appeared in numerous localities duplicate Friends' meeting-houses.

In and around one of these, distinguished as "Liberty Hall," were gathered those whose supreme religious interest was directed against the sin of slavery.
Never was there a church division which involved less bad blood or sense of injury or injustice.