in., p. 314; Olmsted, Back Country, p. 107; Birney, The American Churches, etc., p. 6; and Jones, Religious Instruction, etc., p. 100.]

James G. Birney said that the slaveholding churches like indifferent observers, had watched the abasement of the Negroes to a plane of beasts without remonstrating with legislatures against the iniquitous measures.

In view of this state of affairs Birney was not surprised that it was only here and there that one could find a few slaves who had an intelligent view of Christianity or of a future life.

[Footnote 2: Birney, American Churches, p. 6.]

[Footnote 6: Birney, The Grimké Sisters, p. 11.]

Associated with these leaders also were Benjamin Lundy of Tennessee and James G. Birney, once a slaveholder of Huntsville, Alabama.

[Footnote 5: Birney, James G. Birney and His Times, p. 139.]

[Footnote 5: Birney, James G. Birney and His Times, p. 139.]

James Mott, of Philadelphia, Lewis Tappan, Elizur Wright Jun., Rev. Dr. Follen, and James G. Birney, of New York.

ARTHUR TAPPAN, JAMES G. BIRNEY, JOSHUA LEAVITT, LEWIS TAPPAN, SAMUEL E. CORNISH, SIMEON S. JOCELYN, LA ROY SUNDERLAND, THEODORE S. WRIGHT, DUNCAN DUNBAR, JAMES S. GIBBONS, HENRY B. STANTON Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

The contention of the more extreme of the Northern opponents of slavery voters, whose spokesmen were William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, James G. Birney, Owen Lovejoy, and others, was that the Constitution in so far as it recognised slavery (which it did only by implication) was a compact with evil.

BIRNEY, HOFFMAN.

Hoffman Birney (A); 8Jul58; R217255.

Hoffman Birney (A); 8Jul58; R217249.

J. Smith Music Co., Inc. (PWH); 14Nov69; R472624. SMITH, GERALD BIRNEY.

SEE Smith, Gerald Birney.

Alfred M. Bingham (A); 21May70; R485012. BIRNEY, HOFFMAN.

Marguerite A. Birney (W); 27Feb70; R479731.

BIRNEY, MARGUERITE A. Brothers of doom.

SEE Birney, Hoffman.

Jean B. Birney & Sara Louise B. Shepardson (C); 2Mar55; R145977.

BIRNEY, HOFFMAN.

Hoffman Birney (A); 4Feb57; R185799. Vigilantes.

Hoffman Birney (A); 4Feb57; R185798.

SEE Smith, Gerald Birney.