Instead of one common center of activity and leadership the anti-slavery reform began now to develop two centers of activity and leadership.

Garrison and the _Liberator_ formed the moral nucleus at one end, the Executive Committee and the _Emancipator_ the moral nucleus at the other.

Much of the energies of the two sides were in those circumstances, absorbed in stimulating and completing the processes which were to ultimate in the organic division of the body of the movement against slavery.

When men once begin to quarrel they will not stop for lack of subjects to dispute over.

There will be no lack, for before one disputed point is settled another has arisen.