Money, although not commensurate with the vast wants of the crusade, came in copious and generous streams.

A marvelous munificence characterized the charity of wealthy Abolitionists.

The poor gave freely of their mite, and the rich as freely of their thousands.
Something of the state of simplicity and community of goods which marked the early disciples of Christianity seemed to have revived in the hearts of this band of American reformers.

A spirit of renunciation, of self-sacrifice, of brotherly kindness, of passionate love of righteousness, of passionate hatred of wrong, of self-consecration to truth and of martyrdom lifted the reform to as high a moral level as had risen any movement for the betterment of mankind in any age of the world.
The resolutions of the signers of the Declaration of Sentiment, to enlist the pulpit in the cause of the suffering and dumb, and to attempt the purification of the churches from all participation in the guilt of slavery, encountered determined opposition from the pulpits and the churches themselves.

The Abolitionists were grieved and indignant at the pro-slavery spirit which pulpits and churches displayed.