"[5] Along with sponsoring traveling lecturers, the Society made James G. Birney's newspaper The Philanthropist its official press.
[6] During the Cincinnati riots of 1836, pro-slavery citizens protested against the activities of the society and destroyed Birney's printing press.
A portion of its members asked to cut their ties with the American Anti-Slavery Society and to keep a neutral approach in their abolitionist work.
Some of the society's officials held a separate meeting exclusive for political abolitionists who eventually supported the Liberty Party.
[10] Due to the post-panic economy, the Society and its official publication The Philanthropist started losing their prominence, and by September 1841 the presses were ravaged in a two-day riot.