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National Liberal League (United States)
The National Liberal League (1876-ca.1885) of the United States advocated separation of church and state and the freedom of religion.〔"The Thirteen Principles: Platform of the National Liberal League." In: The Truth seeker collection of forms, hymns, and recitations: Original and selected; for the use of liberals. NY: D.M. Bennett, 1877; p.19+〕 The league evolved into the American Secular Union in 1884. The First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis grew directly out of the chapter there.
==History==
The National Liberal League was one of the first national organizations dedicated to separating church and state. It was presaged by a series of local organizations that emerged before the Civil War that sought to combat Sunday laws, bible-reading in public schools, and other government policies perceived to violate religious liberty. These issues would concern the National Liberal League that formed in the 1870s.〔Kyle G. Volk, ''Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)〕 Officers included Francis E. Abbott, T.B. Wakeman, Elizur Wright, Robert G. Ingersoll, and others.〔New York Times, September 30, 1882〕 Annual conventions took place in Syracuse (1878)〔Anthony Comstock. "The Syracuse Congress." In: Frauds exposed: or, How the people are deceived and robbed, and youth corrupted. NY: J. H. Brown, 1880〕 Cincinnati (1879),〔(Positiveatheism.org )〕 St. Louis (1882),〔Equal rights in religion. 1876〕〔New York Times, September 30, 1882〕 Milwaukee (1883),〔New York Times, September 22, 1883〕 and Cleveland (1885).〔Frugal Bob Ingersoll: how he worked the National Liberal League to his own profic. New York Times, January 4, 1886〕
In 1884 ''The Radical Review'' observed that the League "gave promises of great usefulness in the early years of its existence. In the fall of 1878 its activity was crippled by the appearance of some of those internal strifes and dissentions which seem to be the inevitable accompaniment of the development of all reformatory organisations. To screen personal animosities, always contemptible, side issues were introduced, and the essential aim of the League lost sight of. ... The National Liberal League split on the discussion of the constitutionality of the so-called Comstock law of 1873."〔Radical Review. June 28, 1884〕 Ingersoll resigned from his vice-presidency after the 1879 convention, in opposition to an adopted motion to provide a general defense, rather than his preference to exclude distributors of prurient material and only defend "real Freethought".〔"Obscene Literature", from The Collected Works of Robert Ingersoll〕 The league evolved into the American Secular Union around 1885.〔New York Times, January 4, 1886〕 Circa November 1901, a faction of the American Secular Union split off, and resumed use of the older "National Liberal League" name.〔Volume 19 of The Free Thought Magazine, pp669-672; https://books.google.com/books?id=B5cYAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA671〕
Circa 1945, another organization was using the name, which is claimed to have been unrelated. 〔http://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/local/2014/10/07/history-column-free-thinkers-united-vineland/16811399/〕 In the 1960s, James Hervey Johnson is reported to have assumed the leadership of the National Liberal League of that era.〔http://articles.latimes.com/1990-02-01/news/mn-1601_1_atheist-organizations〕 Current era records〔(Companies NY )〕〔(14th Story directory of California Companies )〕 suggest that Johnson relocated operations in his era of the 1947-founded organization to California, that the organization renamed itself in 1966 to the "National League For The Separation Of Church And State", and that subsequent to Johnson's death an organization of that name continued in New York, with leadership passing to Fred Edwords.
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