Irenics And Polemics With Sundry Essays in Church History
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, . Your petitioners deein it preposterous that while there is one half of the States in which slavery does not exist, and while a large majority of our white population are desirous of seeing it extirpated, this evil is suffered to canker in the vitals of the republic.'' The petition was sent to all the post- masters of the State of Vermont, with the request that they would obtain signatures to it; and most of them " responded nobly " ; so that the document was sent to "Washing- ton with no le...ss than 2352 signatures, and there found a nearly unanimous resolu- tion of the Pennsylvania House of Repre- sentatives in favor of the same object. — [I. 109, 110.] It is this exact period of which it is im- WILUAM LLOYD GARRISON. 163 pudently declared (for the greater glory of Garrison) : " Fifty years ago [i. e., in 1829], it is no ex- aggeration to say, this nation, in church and state, from President to boot-black— I mean the white boot-black — was thoroughly pro-slavery. In the Sodom there might have been a Lot or two here and there — some profound thinker who wished justice to be done though the heavens should fall, but he was despondent.
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