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Show ~la\rcgoluing not a ~'tisfortmte but a <!Lrimc. LoNDON, September 2, 1853. " FOR your movement on behalf of the slave, I have profound respect. I assure you of my un· feigned sympathies aud of my earnest prayers. In my view, you deserve the high esteem of all who love and serve God. Nothing would be deemed by me a greater honor than co-operation with you actively in your work of faith and your labor of love. With full consent of all that is within me, do I range myself among those who deem American slavery not a sad • misfortune, but a heinous crime: a crime all the more heinous, because justified and even perpetrated by men who call themselves the servants of Christ. " I am, madam, yours respectfully, '([~e ,!rnga[itg of £>lalicgoluing. TIIERE is nothing in the universe that ean deserve the name or do the work of valid LAW hut the commandment and the ordinance of the living God. All human enactments, adjudications and usages not founded on these, are of no legal force, and should be trampled under foot. The practice of slaveholcling, for this reason, can never be legalized, and all legis· lative or judicial attempts to sustain it are rebellion against God, and treason against civil society. To teach otherwise, would h~ to set up other gods ~bove J ehovah,. to promulgate the fundamental principle of· atheism, and proclaim war against the liberties of mankind. |
