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, comparativelyio-norant 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 ; buturo-ed, 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 clasantislaveryaddre00clev
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