CHAPTER XXII.
RECEPTION OF THE VISITER.
While preparing matter for the first number of the _Visiter_, I had time to think that so far as any organization was concerned, I stood alone.

I could not work with Garrison on the ground that the Constitution was pro-slavery, for I had abandoned that in 1832, when our church split on it and I went with the New School, who held that it was then anti-slavery.

The Covenanters, before it was adopted, denounced it as a "Covenant with death and an agreement with hell." I had long ago become familiar with the arguments on that side, and I concluded they were fallacious, and could not go back to them even for a welcome into the abolition ranks.
The political action wing of the anti-slavery party had given formal notice that no woman need apply for a place among them.

True, there was a large minority who dissented from this action, but there was division enough, without my furnishing a cause for contention.

So I took pains to make it understood that I belonged to no party.