State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-06-21
AN ADDRESS TO THE AUXILIA-
RIES AND FRIENDS OF THE
VERMONT ANTI-SLANERY
SOCIETY.

RIES AND FRIENDS OF THE
VERMONT ANTI-SLANERY
SOCIETY.
DEAR BRETHREN:
A revolution, greater than that which
gave our nation political existence, is before
us;-a revolution more mighty in its conse
quences, more august, more glorious - a
moral revolution, without which the revo-
luton achieved by the toll, the treasure,
aud the blood of our patriotic foreiathers is
incomplete, unfinished, imperfect and incon-
gruouS, and our political fabric must ere
long crumble into ruin 1t requires not the
gift of prophecy to perceive "n the signs
of the times" that the judgments of Al
mighty God are about to he poured upon
us, it, us IL nation, we still persist in our sin,
and refuse, like Pharoah of old, 'tO let the
people 60" Do not the wrongs of millions
like the blood of Abel, cry to God from the
ground for vengeance upon our land p
Are there not nearly three millions of hu-
man beings, for whom, in common with
us, Christ died, who are entreating us
by all the ties of humanity to use the moral
power which we possess, to deliver them
from AFFECT bonddge,- to restore them to
thoir iudlienable rights" 10 restore them to
themselves, to change their condition from
things to men--to human beings--that they
may enjoy their civil, social, and religious
liberty as well as we--liat they may culii-
vate their intellectual powers, serve and
glority their Creator.
DO not religion and humanity require us
to pattern, as we pass these objects, the
Samaritan rather than the Levte? to re-
member them that are in bonds as bound
with them ?-to love our neighbor as our
selves ?--to do to others as we would have
others do to us in like circumstances And
more, our Saviour strictly enjoins his fol-
lowers TO remember the poor, the wretched
the naked, the cold the hungry, and those
in prison. "Inasmuch," said he, Gas we
have done it unto one of The least of these
my brethren, we have done it unto me-"
And now, fellow citizens, shall we by
political connexion with American slavery,
continue to conntenance and sustain sys-
tenn so repugnant TO orr republican Insti-
buttons, which binds in most servle bondage
many of those persons whom Christ calls
has brethren, and use no eXertions for their
deliverence? Surely not. What then? Shall
we surrender our connexon with the slave
holding States? Certainly not. O,r polit-
zeal connexions must not be b oxen, then must
be sustained. We must not relinguiSh the
po,Oer ace at present possess, Ouer the SlaUe
subject. But slavery must and will be de-
troyed. And we, under God, must coope-
rate in doing it, or neglect an important
Christian and political duty. Have we not
talents and means to bring moral and re-
ligious power to bear on this subject, which
all the powers of earth and hell cannot
resist? n power amply adequate 10 destroy
the whole system and save our country
from inevitable ruin?
Let the pen, the press, and the power OF
our religion be brought to bear directly
upon this subject Let the great truth be
promulgated from one extremity OftIe land
to the other, that man, under God, can
only be made the property of himself--tlal
Christianity and nature itself cry on; against
the system of slavery-that all its elements
IRE at war with every principle of justice
human and divine.
BY this course the work will be done
{ Slavery will be relinquished by the slavers
themselves. For no man or body of men
can long endure business which is lies
picable in the eyes of all the world be-
sides.
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, fellow citizens, we invite your attention tc
the great work in which we are engaged
We ask your cooperation-your influence
and your funds. The work cannot wei
progress without both. The means mus
be put in operation, and with blessing
! from on high, they will succeed.
In accordance with these views, the Yer
mont Anti-Savery Society, at their aniver
sary in February last, resolved TO make 1
vigorous effort to raise $1,000 this year fol
the support of the cause. OF this sum S67'
~ weIe pledged or paid at the time. Sub
sequenty the Executive Committee au
thorized their Delegates to pledge $500
from our State Society to the American
Anti-Slavery Society. And it is pleasing t.
the friends of the cause, that the paren
society, at their annual meeting in May last
resolved TO raise and expend $lO0,0OU
during the coming year, in promotion OF TN
cause.
Hence, heing sustained by the consldera
ton that our cause is n Just and holy cause
feasible and practicable, we come betor
the public and ask our friends especially 4
contribute to the funds of The Vernon
Anti-Savery, on or near the dry of on
national jubilee. The time, the occasion
and the cause is exciting and full OF dee
and solemn interest. Can you participate
in the festivities of that interesting day, an,
forget the AFFECT, the do,On trodden and hea'
broken SLAVE? Most assuredly not. TIL
patriotism Ind philanthropy of the Gree