This was intolerable, and forthwith the Apiarian brotherhood of the free States put together their heads with those of the slave States to attack, sting, and utterly abolish the new idea, and the new idea's supporters.

The Northern churches were, of course, in the Northern brotherhood.

And when the new fanaticism threatened the financial stability of the pews, the pulpits instead of exerting themselves in behalf of the suffering and dumb slaves, exerted themselves to preserve the prosperity of the pews by frowning down the friends of the slaves.

They were among the first to stone the new idea and its fiery prophets.

"Away with them!" shouted in chorus pulpit and pews.