Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . ech you to remove from their path-way to freedom the reproach and stumbling-block ofDemocratic slavery. From the damp depths of dungeons—from the stake and the scaffold, where the martyrs ofliberty have sealed their testimony with their blood—solemn and awful voices call upon you to make the deadletter of your republicanism a living truth. Join with us,then, fellow citizens. Slavery is mighty: but it can beoverthrown. In the name of God and humanity, let usbring the mighty ballot-box of a kingless people to bearupon it. The model man of our Republic, w
Anti-slavery addresses of 1844 and 1845 . ech you to remove from their path-way to freedom the reproach and stumbling-block ofDemocratic slavery. From the damp depths of dungeons—from the stake and the scaffold, where the martyrs ofliberty have sealed their testimony with their blood—solemn and awful voices call upon you to make the deadletter of your republicanism a living truth. Join with us,then, fellow citizens. Slavery is mighty: but it can beoverthrown. In the name of God and humanity, let usbring the mighty ballot-box of a kingless people to bearupon it. The model man of our Republic, who mighthave been a king, but would not, calls from his graveupon each of us to do that, which he solemnly declaredhimself ready to do—to give his vote to free the slaveand to abolish the wicked phantasy of property in shall not call in vain. We acknowledge the duty ofconsecrating our votes to the deliverance of the oppressed,and joyfully do we perform ADDENDA. LETTER TO THE MANAGERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA BIBLE SOCIETY. t. PREFATORY NOTE. O the foregoing Addresses I append the following Letter to the Managers of the PhiladelphiaBible Society, for the following chief , because the Philadelphia Addresshas always, in my mind, been intimately associated with theLetter, bearing to it, as it does, the relation of cause andeffect* Second, because it contains a quotation from a letter of theauthor of the Cincinnati Address, showing his noble senti-ments upon the duty of giving the Bible to the slave, at atime when public opinion upon the subject was such, thateven the American Bible Society would not receive a separatefund for the purpose of supplying our slave population withthe Scriptures. Third, because, as my letter was not put upon the minutesof the Society, probably on account of its length, it may atsome future time be asked why I presented my resignationas their President, and why it was accepted. This letter andthe action of the Society upon it giv
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