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Anti-slavery In Baltimore

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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From my observador hcrc, I hnve no doubt rhnt there ie n great nmouni of nntislavery material in ihis city. Every body is sick ofslavery.- Every body feels it to-beanevil nnd a curse- and what is more, nnd what I have found little óf elsewhere, very many think it is a sin. nnd wil! not touch it. There are. rnany nbolitionisis here. thóugh not exact ly of our srt, and not so fully sympaihizing with us. tis thcy would do if wc were not so grossly misrepresentcd to them.-They are not behind us in (huir abhof renten of slavcry - but hnve not informeel themselves, or perhnps mode very much inquiry as to the s.iforv. expediency, and perfect fensibility of ïmnK'dime emancipation. Thoy nre not yet fully satisfied oí the uhprocticability of colonization,- and are also reatly misinformed as to the condition ol" the frèe colored peoplo oí the Norih. 1 hive never heard grosser misstatemenis, than ihose wbich [ find every where ourrent on ihis regi on, as to the moral and physical condition of our colored people. It jsbadcnough- but ihe pretence that itisworse thnn it would be under alaveryí comes only'from tlie grosaest ignorance, or irom fiendish malice. I have great hope of Baltimore as an anti-slavery city, and of Maryland as a free Slate. I would ratherundertake to carry this city for Liberly, than. the city of Philadelphia- with all iis old memories of Independence Hall- and lts old cchoes of the Liberty bel!. U I had a few hundreddollara lo expcnd ia the Anii-Slavery cause, I can not think of any applicaiion of it that wonld produce a ncher result ihan . hcsupport of a-i able agent Iitre. who should spend n yenr in silent conversntion with Chrisiinn men, and by ('egrees organize the nntisínvery material inio efficiënt association. I om told that the inhuman iaws reccntly passed by the State ngainst free negroes, orerarely put in forcein the city-nhough thsy are often very cruelly enforced in oiher parts of the Staie. There have been Isiely some furiJU3 demonstrations agninst freedom on the pari of Maryland. but they are only tha last throes of an expiring giant, ahd Iconfidenily expect to sec this State among the firet to abolish siavery- and that ihe hour of her deliverance is not faioff

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Signal of Liberty
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