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Some Of The Duties Of An Abolitionist

Some Of The Duties Of An Abolitionist image
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Day
3
Month
November
Year
1841
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Public Domain
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The folTowing sumraary is supposed 'to e from the pen of Gerrit Smilh. It is oming up tö the mark without compromse.[And every whole man is an abolitionist.] He must pray and labor heartily for tie welfare of the slaveholder and tho lavo. He raust piiy the ibrrner and sympathise with the ktter, and all that hc oes for either he should do for the sake and in the name of nis God and of hisSa vior Jesus Christ. 2. God 'is no respecter of persons,nor regardeth he the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands:' - therefore an abolitionist must refuse to altend worship in those churches, whero a colored skin is made a badge of inferiority, and a justification for contempt and hatred. 3. He must not countenance the preachur, who refuses to plead and pray for the slave. 4. He must never vote to'make a legislator of a man,who approves of, or who can tolérate laws in favor of slavery. The foundation doctrine of a Ilepublic is Ihat "uil men are crealed equal." 5. He must believe ihat God 'hatea robbery for burnt offering ;'and mustthere fore refuse to patrón ize those associations that sohcit the coutributions of slavcholders.0. Ho must, if he would keep himself untainted with, and would most effectually rotest against, the most horrid form of robbery,(for such is slavery,)refuse to consume the products of slave labor. 7. He must disconnect himself frona all National purties in the United States, whether political or ecclesiastical. for the reason, that all such parties, whilst slavery exists in the United States must from tho very nature of the cuse, be pro-slavery. Let ten thousand men and women in the United States solemnly piedle themselves in the year 1841, to the conscienlious discharge of the foregoing duties;and such will be the power of this uncompromising and seli-denying testimony against slavery, that ere the year 1850 shall have arrived, the United States will bc a land of impartía! and universal liberty. Peterboro', Aug.27, U41. Genius of Liberty. A friend of ours in New York, heard a slaveholder remark in Howard's hotel, that it was of no use to come to the city with ser vants, for the sco'undrcls popped off for Can ada imniediateJy, orwere concealed by tho d d abolitionists, so that they could not be found. Said he, "I carae to the city with one of my most faithful servants, one I supposed would never leave me,in less than a week he was missing. I beliered he was enticed away, and Ihave been clcar to Canada after him. Wfien I arrived in Cunada, I put up at a hotel, and "by jupiter,' who do you think I saw therei 1 saw tnere two of my own slavcs who had run away a year ago, living as waiters at the hotel. They treated me witji great attention, and when I was ready to come away had the impudence to ask me if I would not oblige thein by carrying some presenta to the children. I givo it up, it is a gone case. We must black our own boots or else pay for tlieir being blacked. D n the abolitionists !" MadisonCo. Abolilionist. Ques. Wby ought one-sixth portion of the American population to be cxiled front their native soil? Ans. Bccause they are black.