“Resolved, That every minister of the gospel is bound to preach against slavery; that every member of a Christian Church is bound to have no fellowship with this unfruitful work of darkness; that every ecclesiastical body is bound to purify itself of these abominations; and that every person entitled to the elective franchise, is bound _not only to refrain from voting_ for persons as national and state officers, who are unwilling to use all their authority for the immediate abolition of slavery, but is BOUND AT EVERY ELECTION, TO REPAIR TO THE POLLS, and cast his vote for such men as will go to the verge of their official authority, for its instant annihilation; _and that every member of an Anti-Slavery Society, who refuses_, UNDER ANY PRETEXT, _thus to act morally or politically, or counsels others to such a course, is guilty of gross inconsistency, and widely departs from the original and fundamental principles of the Anti-Slavery enterprize_.” [6] Those women of the Boston Female Society who had long seen a tendency in the conduct of the New York Committee to injure the Massachusetts Society, had taken pains to have their customary annual appropriation to the cause pledged through the Massachusetts treasury, in anticipation of this very contingency. Their surprise was proportionately great at the ingenuity with which their contribution was made discreditable to the Massachusetts Society and to themselves, by the incorrect assertion that it had been made in _consequence_ of Mr. Stanton’s labors. [7] Most of the business of this Society had, from the beginning, been transacted in _Special Meeting_, and almost the only power granted to the Board of this Society by its Constitution, is this, of calling meetings. The Constitution expressly states that “the President and other officers ARE AUTHORIZED _to call special meetings_,” while there is not a syllable which authorizes them to refuse. [8] Speech of Samuel Reed, of Abington. CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION. We know the arduous strife, the eternal laws, To which the triumph of all good is given, High sacrifice, and labor without pause, Even to the death:--else wherefore should the eye Of man converse with immortality? WORDSWORTH.