State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-09-13
From the Friend of Man.
LETTER TO THE OHIO ANTI
SLAVERY COMMITTEE.

The following is a copy of letter for
warded to Cincinnati from this city:
UTICA, Aug. Goth, 1886.
To The Erecutire Committee ofthe Ohio .4,,ti-
'Slauny Society, at Cincinnati:
DEAR AND HoNoRED Brethren Eel
low-laborers in the kingdom and patience of
Jesus Christ, and in the cause of his OPP
pressed and despised poor The shout of
your ruthless prosecutors has fallen upon
our cars and amid the pauses ofthe storm
we have been cheered by the calm and
firm tones of your unchanged voice. We
hasten to mingle our hearts with yours
to sing, with you, of mercy and of judy
ment-thc mercy that has unmasked a
nations enemies aud shielded your heads,
and guarded your precious lives, when the
| floods of ungodly men rose up against you
the Justice that has visited upon an OPP
pressed and callous nation Il heavy blow
upon her own boasted, but despised liber-
ties.
We know we need not occupy our
time or yours with heightened eXhorta-
lions to courage and patience, under your
own suflorings. We know you will not
think it strange concerning the fiery trial
that is to try you, as though some strange
thing had Happened unto you. 1t was in
no mere worldly enterprise. 1t was in no
scheme of partizan ambition--it was in
no partnership with those VINO seek their
own things, and not the things of Jesus
Christ, and of his suffering members, that
you banded yourselves together. OF your
own pIundored property--of your own in
vaded domicis-of your own insulled per-
sons-of your own endangered lives OF
your own outraged rights of your own
accumulated wrongs-we are persuaded
that you have comparatively thought little,
| OF these topics, we shall accordingly say
little, in rendering to you our coincidence
and our sympathics.
| We mourn, rather, with you, the infatu-
alton Of those who are aiming, through your
Vtals, Il death blow TO their own, their
chiIdreu's, and their country's freedom
We mourn with you, the affecting indica-
tons in the midst of us of that blindness OF
mind and hardness of heart, which consti-
tute the most fearful presages Of a nations
downfall. We mourn, with you, the deep
wounds inflicted upon the cause of our
common Saviour. We mourn, with You
that those who profess to be his disciples
and claim to he the ministers of his truth,
should not only "sland aloof" from the
/ 'CduSc vi tlle pour hllu nceuN, slOulu lOl
only count it obedience to Jesus Christ to
disregard and despise his little ones -
/ Should not only forget that "inasmuch ms
! they relieve nor, AID succor not one of the
least Of these, his brethren, they do it not
unto him." but ns though these negligencies
| for which the Great Judge has seen fiji ia
pronounce his anticipated sentence of con
domination, were not sufficient for them
as though the quiet occupancy OF the scor-
ner's seattle mental drudgery of WIRE sting
the scriptures TO the support of impurity
and healhensnl, of robbery and crime
could not suffice to satisfy their greediness
should now think they do God service
when in defiance Of all human and divine
laws, they combine with the sons Of vio-
lence, TO inilict injuries and outrage upon
those who presume TO "show tie house OF
Jacob their sin" and remember them that
are il bonds as bound with them"
For these things, dear brethren, with you
! we mourn, Nor eau We ceuse 10 cry while