Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-11-25
The Original Anti-Slayery 'AsitatOrs.

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The Original Anli-Slavery AgitatOrs.
[The following extracts help to show
that the war against human oppression
never has aud never can be ''stopped ~
There is not man living who vishc,
more sincerely than | to se3 a plan adopted
for the abolition of slavery Uastngton,
AprH y, l7S6.
The scheme, my dear marquis, which
you propose as prcce lent to encourage
the emancipation of the black peopl, IN
this country from the state Of boai4.e in
which they are held, is a striking evidence
of the beneVolence of your heart Wash
ugtoa 10 Lafayctte, 1888.
1t is the most earncat wish Of America.
TO see an entire stop for ever ppt to the
wicked, cruelanl unnatural trade in slaves.
Meeting at Foi.flr N, Jqiy 8, I774
presided orer 5y Washington.
remble for nv clun'ry, when rea,c,
that Goi sj1st. Il-j1s'iae can not sleep
for ever-J,j:rsoa's Nlies on .Slaceyg il.
Tiryinia. l7o2.
The hing Of Great Britain has wagod
cruel war against human nature itself, vio-
latipg its most sacred rights Of life and HI
erty, ia the persons Of most distant PEG
pie, who never offended him captgatiug
them aud carrying them into slavery in
another hemisphere, or to incur miserable
death in their transportation tbither -Jf
tsrson's Originh Drgtt Of tie Declaration
Of Independence.
After the year 1900 IF the Christian era.
there shall be neither slavery nor invo,uo-
tary servitude in any one Of the said ates,
Gall Of the territories then belonging to the
United States )-J,6erson's Orfinuace Of
1877, unanimously approved By Congress,
and signed By Washington.
1--WE have seen the nero distinction of
color made, in the most enlightened Pc
riod Of time, ground of the most oppres-
sive dominion ever exercised by man over
man."-.James M,dison.
ave have found that this evil has prey
ed upon the very vitals of the Union, and
has been prejudicial to all the States in
which it has existed. ."-James Monroe.
"The tariff was only the pretext, and
disunion and Southern Contederacy the
real object. The next pretext will be the
negro or slavery question. ."-Anare,C
Jackson, My, 1888.
"Sir, envy neither the heart nor the
head Of that man from the North who rises
here to defend slavery on principle. -
John Randolph Of Roanoke.
"Tbe people of Carolina form two clas-
ses, 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 10 brandy,
not in books aud newspapers; hence they
know nothing of the comp alive blessings
of our country, or Of the dangers which
threaten it; therefore they care nothing
about it, Gen. Francis .Nuion to
Baron De Kaib.
$50 long as God 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
bondsge. ."-Hsnry clay.
Abiding to the time the above sen,i-
ncnt was uttered, Thomas H. Benton says,
"That was proud day. | could have
wished that | had spoken the same word,;
speak them now, telling you they are
his, and adopting them as my own"
"The sum of all yilainies. "-J Ucszcy.
1--WE consider the voluntary enslaviDg
Of one part Of the human race by another,
as utterly Inconsistent with tie law OF
God, which epj ius that all things what
soever ye would that men should DO unto
you, do ye even SO to them" -Res,iaaoas
unaninIousy adopted Ly the General As-
ssnlJiy Of tie Hesiy'erjaa Cbuych of he
United States II Amojc1, 1918.
[Were Washington, Jefferson &c. living
now, they would be hunted cut Of Secesh
Virginia, and denounced by mol.En "De.
mocrats" as "Abolitionisis -
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