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Some of the duties of an abolitionist : (and every whole man is an abolitionist.)

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.

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SOME OF THE DUTIES OF AN ABOLITIONIST;

(AND EVERY WHOLE MAN IS AN ABOLITIONIST.)


1. He must pray and labor heartily for the welfare of the slaveholder and slave. He must pity the former, and sympathize with the latter: and all that he does for either, he should do in the name and for the sake of his God and of his Savior Jesus Christ.

2. God "is no respecter of persons;" "nor regardeth he the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands:" - therefore the Abolitionist must refuse to attend worship in those Churches, where a colored skin is made a badge of inferiority, and a justification for contempt and hatred.

3. He must not countenance the preacher, who refuses to plead and pray for the slave.

4. He must never vote to make a legislator of a man, who approves of, or who can tolerate laws in favor of slavery. The foundation doctrine of a Republic is that "all men are created equal."

5. He must believe, that God "hates robbery for burnt offering;" and must therefore refuse to patronize those Associations, that solicit the contributions of slaveholders.

6. He must, if he would keep himself untainted with, and would most effectually protest against, the most horrid form of robbery, (for such is slavery,) refuse to consume the productions of slave labor.

7. He must disconnect himself from all National parties in the United States, whether political or ecclesiastical, for the reason, that all such parties, whilst slavery exists in the United States, must, from the very nature of the case, be pro-slavery.

Let ten thousand men and women in the United States solemnly pledge themselves in the year 1841 to the conscientious discharge of the foregoing duties; and such will be the power of this uncompromising and self-denying testimony against slavery, that ere the year 1850 shall have arrived, the United States will be a land of impartial and universal liberty.

PETERBORO', AUGUST 27, 1841.

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