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Title: Autographs for freedom
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Griffiths, Julia, -1895 Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society
Subjects: Slavery
Publisher: Auburn, Alden, Beardsley & Co. Rochester, Wanzer, Beardsley & Co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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the article you havedone me the honor to solicit, for the- Autographsfor Freedom. Particularly do I regret this now,when the great conflict betYv^een aristocracy and de-mocracy is about being renewed all over the continentof Europe, and when despots are pointing with exult-ation to the unparalleled enormities of our peculiarinstitutions, and the fiiends of republican equality, inall lands, are disheartened by our example. Wouldthe slaveholders of the south but consent to placethose who till their lands, under the protection ofwholesome and impartial law, and pay them laonest 162 The Mission; of A:merica. wages, it tvouM ere long cause liiiman riglits to be re-spected in every corner of the globe. It should bethe mission of America, by the silent influence of aglorious example, to revolutionize all despotisms. VTehave a vast continent to subdue and to adorn, and weneed the aid of millions more of willing hands to ac-complish the magnificent enterprise. With muchesteem I am truly yours,
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rjlHE late Dr. Clialmers, not long before his death,spoke with disapprobation of Abolitionists in theUnited States, for undertaking, as he said, to de-cide, without sufficient evidence, upon the irreligiouscharacter of ministers and church-members. TJiey^forsooth, undertake to exclude men from the Lordstable, who are in good and regular standing in thechurch of Christ, because they happen to hold slaves!They pretend to decide who, and who are not Chris-tians ! It is marvellous that so learned and so dis-tinguished a man should have fallen into such a mis-take ; and, on hearsay, ventured to utter a mostcalumnious accusation against the friends of the slave. The Abolitionists might, perhaps, make decisions inthe case not wide of the mark, founded upon the rulegiven by Jesus Christ: By their fruits ye shall know 164 DiSFELLOWSHIPPIXG SlAVEHOLDEES. them. But, in declaring tliat slaveholders ought notto be fellowshipped as Christians, they do not saywhether a slaveholder is or is not a Chr

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