Right and wrong in MassachusettsChapman, Maria Weston
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Right and wrong in Massachusetts
Chapman, Maria Weston
Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society
“Tempt them with bribes, ’twill be in vain;
Try them with fire, you’ll find them true.”
But all external opposition, in whatever form it may appear,
is harmless, compared to internal sedition.--And with pain we
avow it, there is a deep scheme laid by individuals, at present
somewhat conspicuous, as zealous and active abolitionists, to put
the control of the anti-slavery movements in this Commonwealth
into other hands. This scheme, of course, is of clerical origin,
and the prominent ringleaders fill the clerical office. One of the
most restless was a participant in the famous “Clerical Appeal”
conspiracy,--though not one of the immortal FIVE. The design is,
by previous management and drilling, to effect such a change in
the present faithful and liberal-minded Board of Managers of the
State Society, at the annual meeting, as will throw the balance
of power into the hands of a far different body of men, for the
accomplishment of ulterior measures which are now in embryo.--The
next object is, to effect the establishment of a new weekly
anti-slavery journal, to be the organ of the State Society, for
the purpose, if not avowedly, yet designedly to subvert the
Liberator, and thus relieve the abolition cause in this State of
the odium of counteracting such a paper. Then----make way for the
clergy! For, by “hanging Garrison,” and repudiating the Liberator,
they will surely condescend to take the reins of anti-slavery
management into their own hands!
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