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the friends of peace to organize themselves
into united work.
A Peace Society was formed in New York
in August, 1815; and in November of the
same year the Ohio Peace Society. The
Massachusetts Peace Association (Boston) started in
January, 18 16, and a similar society was begun
in Rhode and Maine in 1817. These, with that
of South Carolina, united in 1828, and formed
the American Peace Society, an association
which is still in active operation. Also in
Philadelphia an association was formed, which was
succeeded in 1868 by the Universal Peace Union.
In 1814 a zealous philanthropist, Mr. William
Allen, a member of the Society of Friends,
invited a number of persons to his house in
London to form a peace association. They
did not at once agree upon the best method,
and the proposal was deferred for a time. But
after the conclusion of peace was signed in 1816,
Mr. Allen, with the assistance of his friend
Mr. Joseph Tregelles Price, also a member of
the Society of Friends, called his friends
together again, and succeeded in bringing into
existence the English peace association, under
the name of the Peace Society.
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