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To The Friends Of The Slave: For The Signal Of Liberty: In T...

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
April
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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By friends of the slave, is not tneant aboÜiionists vitn a "hul"- bui such, and such only, as "show their failh by thejr ww-is," - súch as honor their professions by uári all the peacea'ble and lawful means within their rank to exterminato slavery from the country. Without orgaaization,your effortsarenecessarily fee blerwith it you are strong for the accomplishment of your object. The reason is, in the one case you act individually, and separately, and your eflbrts are aa it were. scatlered to the winds. ín the other, your talents and influence are concentrated. Such concentration is poioer, accumulátive and efficiënt in its nature, which when brought to bear on a given point, produces effect, as collected rays of the sim converged to a focus by a sunglnss, ignitesor otherwise affectsthe object brought in contact with the focal point.Itis this power which has revi ved the spirit of '76, and rekindled that flame - though for many years feebly flickering in the socket of freedom's lamp - which once turned with intensity upon the alfar of the national heart, and melted down the chains forgcd by British tyrants 'for Anglo-Americans, and the manacles wickedly tlirust upou the enslaved Africana in the northern States.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News