New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-17

x~.... u. suI,rsa vuu3a BE- 70 sheir sdvantage IN
,vas 60 could shisld them from Ill evii aifes
- asssk ave gore y the grave w.a her whose 49,
-" - net been written, nor thaf sdyicc given, had
{eyed 10 vur sincerity and honest Intention TO 40
- sxeh yoursed and your wife being the judges Oh
Lsce hen Il my surprise, ifyou can, when Learned
40 Won had sent your ~ New-York 70 identaiy
Preston yoar properly you had forgotten All you'
declarations Of your wexs OF humanity ana rtgAI
nat YOU had dimegvded ne ,rpeascd rsa % your oe
nnsed vi by whom those slaves came into your pos
session and had torn the man from fIeedom-fron
he bososa Of his earthly p~sn1 and from h,s child:
On he strength Of S1, EcpssrO emo n
. class Of slaveholders who are made sacn ny e %
a circmstances have insisted that they are gooSi
ehsing slavery and doing e. ' s Sse ea ,S Of Fres
I'm bss sealed my lips How can ever urge tnat pea
srsin AZ have often referred TO VIM hkksE, ~ "a
Ming witness Of the humanity and moral
- esIIed upon the stand before the wordury TO prove
NJ The contrary A. you have volunteered 70 prove
80 no reliance can safely be placed upon such probes
.@v "a as public a. possible, and hold up the gaze
Of IN indignant world this builiating truth turn IA
.ueter DESPAIR from the task Of defending any class
Sf sIaveholders and No love truth even though COW
err some men with infamy have here presented WIZ.
Rrrsr M he protested to be In ls46 and as he Is In
lss0 Let the public "look on tbs picture 'hen on
mt Cir YOU pyojsss 70 be Christian mana worship
er Of Him "who hath made of one blood all the ma
Sions Of men"-a follower Of Him who condensed one
half of the Grent Moral Law into this bnei precept'
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thysei" Aqreo9eL
Won belong TO the NJ T. Church. and profess to be fo-
3ower Of that John Wesley who has recorded words as
hard as cannon balls" against all saraod'nS placing
& "exactly a level with man.stealing SUI more,
vou are or seye classleader in that church which
Srvs No eavehoder shall be eligible to any oeta std
eicn when the civil law will allow OF emancipation,
md permit the liberated slave to enjoy freedom Being
minister in that church. and possessing the Jds
recorded above claim the right to speak and should
be SILENT should dcservet to have my tongue cea'e
% the roof Of my mouth - ii.
Rut what will YOU do with that man VIII you keep MN
An your brick yard where you be daily witness OF
his loupngor freedom and OF his agony WINE separs'eo
from his wife and child Or will you sell him TO the ac-
cursed trader in humanity, and consign INN to more
tasting toll and an early death in more southern
IocaItys Once, If your word can be taken, YOU hu-
uanely inerposed to rave man from TINS a'ter doo
Yea and secured his freedom On easy term. Tor num-
though at come risk for yourself.
But whatever YOU do with Preston, charge you to re-
member your Conversation with me, Tor nave written
4 in my Notes by the Way which my children may
read and show 10 others hereafter! Nay, Is witn IN
abe "book of remembrance before God and you VIII
meet il before the great white throne" when the dead
sIl be Judged of the things which are within In tne
booksr You and will meet them and both mere ana
there am ready to testify that you denied all night to
the man whom you have since so cruelty wronged AT
that tribunal you will meet that deceased WIFE, VINO ac
eordng your showing died In the behci ths the
freed by your act There, too, will the man Preston APP
pear in the relation which he now holds to YOU but
on level with yourself in station and right Aud there
win be seen the rife wIDowEpi and that child, oRPH
AHED by you Possibly the Fugitive Slave Law VIII
net then be in force nor extend its power into tina;
Kingdom where the Judge of all the earth presides
That unjust and inhuman enactment may not then be
advocated by Busteed and unjusty executed by Morton
And II Is quite possible that "hoy men who gave scrip
sure for the deed" will have learned better morality
shan they taught here which served opae 10 con
sciences like your own.
But leave you and all your agents, and all your sym
pathizers whether North or South TO Him who judgeh
riqhteoutly write under weight OF mental anguish,
which would lead me to use harshness. But remem
Der that the wrath Of workcth not the righteous
ness of God" will not adopt the language OF the
Archange and say The Lord retose thee =" But may
and will say, the Lord have mercy you before the
.sime shall come when "he shai have Judgment with
.Out mercy, who hath showed mercy
For the substantial facts which haze stated refer
you and the public Rev Elisha Adams Presiding III
der of Dover District New Hampshire Conference lie
WAS my fellow guest at your house and though have
had communication with him since the close Of thai
General Conference, yet he shall be my witness.
Ii. NJ Hall,
Pastor NJ. z. Church, Schenectady, NY.
Aprj7 H. 1852