James Birney

he attended several sermons given by a Baptist abolitionist by the name of David Barrow in his youth, which he later recalled with fondness.

He studied political philosophy, logic and moral philosophy, and became known as a proficient debater.

. Birney graduated from Princeton on September 26, 1810.

After this, he began to study law at the office of Alexander J. Dallas in Philadelphia, the father of his Princeton friend and classmate.

In 1840 he received 7069 votes; in 1844, 62,263. A fall from his horse in 1845 made him a hopeless invalid, and completely removed him from public life. He died at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on the 25th of November 1857.

After the separation of the Garrisonian and the political abolitionists in 1840 the new party was formed, and in 1840, and again in 1844, as the Liberty party, it made Birney its candidate for the Presidency.

He freed his own slaves in 1834

He delivered anti-slavery addresses in the North, accepted the vice-presidency of the American Anti-Slavery Society and announced his intention to establish an anti-slavery journal at Danville (1835).

He favored immediatism, but he differed sharply from the Garrisonian abolitionists, who abhorred the federal Constitution and favored secession. He always wrote, spoke and labored for the permanent safety of the Union.