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
The plot, thus far, has been warily managed,--so as, if possible,
to “deceive the very elect.” Many, we know, are already ensnared,
and some, at least, who neither intend nor suspect mischief.
The guise in which it is presented, is one of deep solicitude
for the success of our cause. No attempt is made to lower down
the standard--O no!--but simply to change the men to whom has
been so long entrusted the management of the enterprize, and
put in their place younger men, better men, who will accomplish
wonders, and perform their duties more faithfully--that’s all!
While, privately, by conversation, letters, circulars, &c. &c.
every effort is making to disparage the Liberator, (the paper
is too tame for these rampant plotters!) and to calumniate its
editor, no hostility to either is to be openly avowed! Far from
it; for honesty in this case might not, peradventure, prove to
be the best policy.--The shape in which this new project is to
be urged, is developed in the resolutions which were adopted at
the recent meeting of the Worcester County North Division A.
S. Society, at Fitchburgh. Those resolutions were concocted in
Essex County, by the joint labors of two clergymen, and passed as
above stated,--only four or five hands, we learn, being raised in
their favor. The plan is, it seems, to get as many anti-slavery
societies committed in favor of these resolutions, before the
annual meeting, as possible. The _political_ necessity which is
urged for another paper is ridiculous; and we know it is nothing
but a hollow pretence.
The trusty friends of our good cause, and all who desire to
baffle the machinations of a clerical combination, will need no
other notice than this, to induce them to rally at the annual
meeting, and watch with jealousy and meet with firmness every
attempt, however plausibly made, to effect any material change
in the management of the concerns of the State Society. The
spirit that would discard such men as Francis Jackson, Ellis Gray
Loring, Samuel E. Sewall, Edmund Quincy, and Wendell Phillips, is
treacherous to humanity.
As a specimen of the billing and cooing which is going on
between gentlemen of the sacerdotal robe, in order to bring
about a radical alteration in anti-slavery control, read the
following extract from a recent letter of the Rev. Dr. Osgood,
of Springfield, to Prof. Emerson, of the Theological Seminary at
Andover:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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