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antislavery in the little Methodist
church at the foot of the hill on
the right hand as you go "down
town." The Faculty of the Seminary & in
part, nearly all to the orhodox clergymen
of N. Eng. & the whole country
looked with disfavor upon the
anti-slavery movement & denounced
Geo. Thompson as an emissary
of the British Government to disturb
the peace of our country & as
an infidel & an atheist.

Almost every pulpit in the whole
country fulminated against Geo
Thompson. Wm Lloyd Garrison, Henry B.
Wright, Parker Pillsbury, Wendell Phillips,
et genus [?]

While Geo. Thompson was in
Andover, many of the students of the
Seminary & of the Academy attended
his lectures in spite of the malediction
of Prof. Stewart et al of
Andover. Dr. Beecher of Lane Seminary