Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-05-07

world this Illuminating truth. Turn, in utter de
spair, from the task Of defending any class o
shareholders and as love truth even though i
covers some men with nfamy, | have here pre-
scented WIN. REESE. as he protested TO be ir
l648, and as he is in 1852 Let the public "lool
on this picture; then on that"
But, Sir, you profess to be Christian man
q worshiper of Him "who hath made of one blood
all the nations Of men"--a follower of Him who
condensed one half Of the Great Moral Law into
this brief precept, "Thou shalt love thy neigh
Dor as myself" Moreover, you belong to the
NJ. r. Church, and profess to be follower OF
that John Wesley who has recorded swords as
| hard as cannon balls against all sLdreholding'
placing it exactly a level with man stealing
Still more, you are, or acere, class-leader in tina,
church which says, "No STAKEHOLDER shall be ell.
igibIe TO any 0f7cidl station, when the civil law
will allow OF emancipation, and permit the Iibe-
rated slave to enjoy freedom" Being minis
ter in that same church, and possessing the facts
recorded above, claim the right to speak and
should be silent, should deserve to have "aly
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth"
But what will you do with that man? Will
! you keep him in your brick. yard, where you can
be daily witness Of his longing for freedom and
of his agony while separated from his wife and
child? Or will you send him TO the accused
trader in humanity, and consign him to more
wasting toll, and an early death in some more
southern locality? Once, if your word can be
taken, you humanity interposed to save man
from this latter doom. Yea, and secured his
freedom on easy terms for him, though at some
risk for yourself.
But whatever you do with Preston, charge
you TO remember your conversation with me, for
have written it in my "Notes by the Way"
which my children may read, and show to others
hereafter Nay, it is within the book Of re-
membrance" before God; and you will meet it
"before the great white throne" when "the dead
shall be Judged out of the things which are with
in in the books" You and | will meet them,
and both here and there ain ready to testify that
you denied all right to the man whom yon have
since so cruelty wronged. AT that tribunal you
will meet that deceased wife, who, according to
your own showing, died in the belief that the
slaves which she unwingly brought to you,
would be freed by your act There, too, will
the man Preston appear, not in the relation
which he now holds to you, but on level with
yourself in station and right. And there will
be seen the ,cife, WIDOWED; and that child, OR
PHANED, by YOU! Possibly the Fugitive Slave
Law will not then be in force, nor extend its
power into that kingdom where the Judge Of oil
the earth presides! That unjust and inhuman
enactment may not then be advocated by BUS
teed, and unjussly executed by Morton. And it
is quite possible that "holy men who gave scrip
sure for the deed" will have learned better
morality than they taught here, which served as
an opiate to conscences like your own.
But leave you, and all your agents. and all
yonr sympathizers, whether North or South, to
Him who judgeth rightcousy. write under a
weight of mental anguish, which would lead me
to use harshness. But remember that "the
wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of
God" | will no, even adop, tue language of
the Archangel, and say, "Ihe Lord rebuke thee :"
Bat may and will say, the Lord have mercy on
you, before the time shall come when ''he shall
have Judgment without mercy, who hath show
ed no mercy"
For the substantial facts which have stated,
refer you AID the public to Rev. Elisha Ad
ans, Presiding Elder of Dover District, New
Hampshire Conference He was my fellow
guest al your honse; and though have had no
communication with him since the close of that
General Conference, YET he shnli be my witness
B. NJ. HALL,
Pastor NJ f. Church, Schenectady, N. Y.
APRIL u. 1852.