The very respect with which we were compelled to regard them only increases our sense of the evils which lie germinant in their doctrines; and we came home with the conviction that religious liberty in America must do battle for its very existence hereafter.

The movement in which these men are engaged has too many elements of strength to be contemned by any far-seeing liberal.

Blindness or sluggishness to-day means slavery to-morrow.

Radicalism must pass now from thought to action, or it will deserve the oppression that lies in wait to overwhelm it." As to the probability of the success of this movement, there is at present some difference of opinion.

While a very few pass it by with a slur as a mere temporary sensation of little or no consequence, it is generally regarded as a work of growing strength and importance, both by its advocates and opposers.