William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : the story of his life told by his children . L. Chaplin, Lewis Tappan (New York);Charles C. Burleigh, Charles W. Gardiner (Pennsyl-vania); and Charles W. Denison (New Jersej^). OnMiss Kelleys confirmation by the meeting the fate ofthe Society depended. The viva-voce vote being ques- Lib. 10: 86. tioned, a count by the tellers showed a total of 1008,with about a hundred majority in her favor. The death- ^ Alias John Colman. His titulary name, like his anti-slavery profes-sion, was put on (Lib. 10: 111, 131, and MS. July IG, 1841, Oliver JohnsontoW. L. G.) 2 T
William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879 : the story of his life told by his children . L. Chaplin, Lewis Tappan (New York);Charles C. Burleigh, Charles W. Gardiner (Pennsyl-vania); and Charles W. Denison (New Jersej^). OnMiss Kelleys confirmation by the meeting the fate ofthe Society depended. The viva-voce vote being ques- Lib. 10: 86. tioned, a count by the tellers showed a total of 1008,with about a hundred majority in her favor. The death- ^ Alias John Colman. His titulary name, like his anti-slavery profes-sion, was put on (Lib. 10: 111, 131, and MS. July IG, 1841, Oliver JohnsontoW. L. G.) 2 They were very sore over their failure to effect a larger rally. TheRev. Samuel May, of Leicester, Mass., one of the delegates to the Conven-tion, wrote to Francis Jackson on May 18,1840 (MS.): I found a numberof New Organizationists in the Norwich boat on my return; and, fromconversation with them, I find that there is no accusation, however meanor flagrant, which some of them are not ready to make against the oldMassachusetts Society, and the Board of Managers in ,{( / ;/.L ^j^^^^ J^^^^^i^k^ ^Et. 35.] THE SCHISM. 349 knell of sectarianism had sounded. Tappan, Phelps, andDenison at once asked to be excused from serving on z/^. 10 committee, the first assigning as his reasons that to Lib. 10: a woman on a committee with men is contrary to theConstitution of the Society; it is throwing a firel3randinto the anti-slavery ranks ; it is contrary to the usagesof civilized society. And his clerical associates added,that it was contrary to the gospel and to their con-sciences. Messrs. Tappan and Denison then arose, andasked those who had voted against the appointment ofwomen to meet and form a new society. The battle being thus ended on the first day, the meet-ing proceeded to dispose of the pending amendments tothe Constitution, which were all rejected save one, viz.,that the Executive Committee should thereafter beelected by the Society instead of by the Boa
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