And when on the third day Beriah Green brought the congress to a close in a valedictory address of apostolic power and grandeur, and with a prayer so sweet, so fervent, and strong as to melt all hearts, the pent-up waters of the reform was ready to hurl themselves into an agitation the like of which had never before, nor has since, been seen or felt in the Union.

Thenceforth freedom's little ones were not without great allies, who were "exultations, agonies, and love, and man's unconquerable mind." Everywhere the flood of Abolitionism burst upon the land, everywhere the moral deluge spread through the free States.

Anti-slavery societies rose as it were, out of the ground, so rapid, so astonishing were their growth during the year following the formation of the national society.
In nearly every free State they had appeared doubling and quadrupling in number, until new societies reached in that first year to upwards of forty.

Anti-slavery agents and lecturers kept pace with the anti-slavery societies.

They began to preach, to remonstrate, to warn, entreat, and rebuke until their voices sounded like the roar of many waters in the ears of the people.