The society goes into no household to disturb its domestic
tranquillity. It addresses itself to no slaves to weaken their
obligations of obedience. It seeks to affect no man's property. It
neither has the power nor the will to affect the property of any one
contrary to his consent. The execution of its scheme would augment
instead of diminishing the value of property left behind. The society,
composed of free men, conceals itself only with the free. Collateral
consequences we are not responsible for. It is not this society which has
produced the great moral revolution which the age exhibits. What would
they who thus reproach us have done? If they would repress all tendencies
toward liberty and ultimate emancipation, they must do more than put down
the benevolent efforts of this society. They must go back to the era of
our liberty and independence, and muzzle the cannon which thunders its
annual joyous return. They must renew the slave trade, with all its train
of atrocities. They must suppress the workings of British philanthropy,
seeking to meliorate the condition of the unfortunate West Indian slave.
They must arrest the career of South American deliverance from thraldom.
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