Diary of Gerrit Smith: July 12, 1834

I attended this evening the meeting in which our town Anti-slavery Society was organized. The constitution is good. Nevertheless I did not join the Society. I think I cannot join the Anti-slavery Society as long as the war is kept up between it and the American Colonization Society — a war, however, for which the Colonization Society is as much to blame as the other Society.

SOURCE: Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Gerrit Smith: A Biography, p. 163-4