Members of the same family attended separate churches without the least difference in their cordial relations.

No important principle was involved; there were apparently good reasons for both lines of policy, and each party understood and respected the other's position.

After the adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the passing of the Whig party, these differences disappeared, the separate organization was disbanded, and all Friends' meetinghouses became "liberty halls." The disposition to aid the fugitive was by no means confined to the North nor to Quakers in the South.

Richard Dillingham, a young Quaker who had yielded to the solicitations of escaped fugitives in Cincinnati and had undertaken a mission to Nashville, Tennessee, to rescue their relatives from a "hard master," was arrested with three stolen slaves on his hands.

He made confession in open court and frankly explained his motives.