A Review of the Official Apologies of the American Tract Society for Its Silenc
A Review of the Official Apologies of the American Tract Society for Its Silenc
American Abolition Society
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For attending horse-races — but not for driving men and women under the lash to the cotton and sugar fields. For drinking wine — but not for robbing millions of all civil and religious freedom. For wearing costly apparel — ^but not for rendering a vast population legally incapable of owning a single garment. For visiting the circus — ^but not for annihilating, by law, the marriage relation. -^ -. 'S^-fe 5 . «*. ;«. For smoking and chewing tobacco — but not fot upholding, vindicat- ing and exten...ding a system of compulsory ignorance and degradation, and of unparalleled injustice and cruelty. --I' J. , t It is now time to turu to a painful example of humap frailty, as ex- hibited in the last apology. ; In that document the Rev. Messrs. Knox and Hallock assure the public that ^^Tke executive officers of the Society^ as individuals, have no sympathy with Slavery. '''' As this averment is part of the defence made in behalf of the Society for the silence of its tracts against Slavery, it surely is meant to be understood that none of the officers of the Society, and especially none of the Publishing Committee, have any sympathy with Slavery.
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