Goodell is perceptive, analytical, expert, and solid.

Child (David L.) is generously indignant, courageous, and demonstrative; his lady combines strength with beauty, argumentation with persuasiveness, greatness with humility.

Birney is collected, courteous, dispassionate--his fearlessness excites admiration, his conscientiousness commands respect." Of these writers, which is acceptable to slaveholders or their apologists?
Some have been cruelly treated and all been calumniated as "fanatics, disorganizers, and madmen." And why?
"Certainly not for the _phraseology_ which they use, but for the _principles_ which they adopt." From another quarter came presently notes of discord, aroused by Garrison's _hard language_.

Sundry of the Unitarian clergy, under the lead of Rev.Henry Ware, Jr., took it into their heads that the editor of the _Liberator_ and some others were outrageously abusing the Abolition cause, "mismanaging it by their unreasonable violence" of language.

Wherefore those gentlemen interposed to rescue the great cause from harm by a brilliant scheme designed to secure moderation in this regard.