But Angelina confesses that "our judgment is not convinced, and we hardly know what to do about it, for we have just as high an opinion of Brother Garrison's views, and _he_ says '_go on_.'" The influence of Weld and Whittier finally prevailed with "Carolina's high-souled daughters," and they refrained from further agitation of the subject of Women's rights lest they should thereby injure the cause of the slave.
But the leaven of equality was not so effectually disposed of.

It had secured permanent lodgment in the anti-slavery body, and the fermentation started by it, went briskly on.

Such progress did the principle of women's rights make among the Eastern Abolitionists, especially among those of Massachusetts, that in the spring of 1838 the New England Anti-Slavery Society voted to admit women to equal membership with men.

This radical action was followed by a clerical secession from the society, which made a stir at the time.

For among the seceding members was no less a personage than Amos A.Phelps, who was the general agent of the Massachusetts Society, and therefore one of Garrison's stanchest supporters.