Introduction “Resolved, that while a bullet may kill the slaveholder, an idea alone, can kill Slavery; and that all that has been achieved for Liberty and against Slavery, in this or any other lands, has been solely in a War of Ideas; and never was the duty clearer and incumbent on Abolitionist than at the present hour, to engage earnestly and persistently in the War of Ideas which for 30 years they have waged against Slavery.” -Henry Wright, Speaker, Abolitionist Convention, Boston, January 26,