Note 61 — Chapter IV · IN THE ANTI-SLAVERY RANKS 1845-1849 (continued 2)

In his address on “The Place of the Independent in Politics,” delivered forty years later, Lowell pithily says: “A moral purpose multiplies us (Independents) by ten, as it multiplied the early Abolitionists. They emancipated the negro; and we mean to emancipate the respectable white man.”