Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . HE great contest in* our country betweenFreedom and Slavery began with thevery formation of our Constitution, andcontinued, with various intermissions,down to the overthrow of the giant-mon-ster by the proclamation of our martyr-President-Abraham Lincoln—January I, 1863. As the futurehistorian will desire as many landmarks as possible ofthis great life-and-death struggle, the following Ad-dresses are now re-published in a form more permanentthan when they first appeared. It is now nearly aquarter of a century since they were written. A newgeneration ha
Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . HE great contest in* our country betweenFreedom and Slavery began with thevery formation of our Constitution, andcontinued, with various intermissions,down to the overthrow of the giant-mon-ster by the proclamation of our martyr-President-Abraham Lincoln—January I, 1863. As the futurehistorian will desire as many landmarks as possible ofthis great life-and-death struggle, the following Ad-dresses are now re-published in a form more permanentthan when they first appeared. It is now nearly aquarter of a century since they were written. A newgeneration has come upon the stage, comparativelyignorant of the opposition encountered and the odiumendured by those who thus early fought the great battleof Freedom. We fought, indeed, with the moral wea~pons of justice, conscience, and the Word of God ; buturged, at the same time, that all these should be con-summated at the ballot-box. We hoped and prayedfor the peaceful overthrow of slavery by legislativeenactments, and we asked all classes toantislaveryaddr00clev
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