Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-10-22
The Original Anti Slavery Agitators.

There Is not man living who wishes
more sincerely than | do to see a plan
adopted for the abolition ofslayery.-GSO.
! Washington, Aprii II, 1876.
| The scheme, my dear Marquis, which
/ you propose as precedent to encourage
emancipation OF the black people in this
country from the state of bondage in which
they are held, is II striking evidence of
the beneyolence OF your heart. - WASH
i,gt0n 10 Lafayette. lio5.
I 1T is the most earnest wish of Amer
| lea, to see an entire stop forever put TO
the wicked, cruel, and unnatural trade
in slaves. ''-Jiestiny at Fdirtdr, Va, Jidy
18Th, I774, presided Ocer Jy Washington.
Il tremble for my country, when / re-
! fleet that God Is just. His justice cannot
| sleep forever. ."-JcysrSOH Notes on ,S,Vsrg
ut Iiryinia, 1872. .
The King of Great Britain has waged
cruel war against human nature itself, vi
| olating its most sacred tights of life and
liberty, in the persons OF "A distant people
Whoneyer offended him; captivating them
and carrying them into slavery in another
hemisphere, or TO incur miserable death
in their transportation hither." jefferson s
Original Draft et hs Declaration Of Iadepen-
deace.
After the year 1900 OF the Christian
Era. there shall be neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude in any of the said
states" tall of the territories then belong
ing to the United States l-JefersOn's Or
d;1,ance Of 1871, unanimously dPProced by
Congress aud sig,,ed by Washington.
I'VE have seen the mere distinction of
color made, in the most enlightned period
of time, q ground of the most oppressive
dominion ever exercised by man over
man. "-uJaRes Madison.
We have found that this evil has preye,i
aDo,. The rery citaLs Of the UaioH, and has
been preiudiciaI to all the states in which
it has existed. flames Monroe.
The tariff was only the pretext, and
ds,gtoa and a Southern COnteLr0cy tie real
object. The next pretext will be the ne
gro or slavery question. ''-Aadrea0 JocksoH,
Hay 1855. -.
Sir. | envy neither the heart nor the
head of that man from the North who
rises here TO defend slavery on nprinciple." )"
John Randolph et Roanoke.
The people of Carolina form two class
es. the rich and the poor. The poor are
very poor; the rich who have slaves to do
all their work, give them no employment.
The little they get is laid out III brandy,
not in books and newspapers; hence they
know nothing of the comparative bless
ings of our country, or of the dangers
which threaten it; therefore they care
nothing about il. ."-GeHsTat +. Uarf0n 70
Baron De hall.
80 long as tod allows the vital current
to flow through my veins, will never,
never, never, by word or thought, by mind
or will; aid in admitting one rood OF free
territory to the everlasting curse OF human
bondage e"-He7Ty Gay.
Abiding to the time the above senti-
ment was uttered, Thomas II. Benton
says: That was proud day. l could
have wished that had spoken the same
words; speak them now, telling you
they were his, and adopting them as my
own"
We consider the voluntary enslaving
of one part of the human race by another
as utterly inconsistent with the law OF
tod. which enioins that all things what
soever We would that man should do to
YOU, do We even so to them. Resolutions
unanimously adopted By The General Assen-
Gly of the Presbyterian CtsrTch Of the United
States Of Anisr.ea, 1918.