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Excerpt from An Address to the Abolitionists of Massachusetts, on the Subject of Political Action
We, however, value political action, chie?y as a means of agitating the subject. The great support of slavery, -without which it could not stand in the United States, two years, - is a cor rupt public sentiment, among those who are not slaveholders. The current doctrine of the North is, that slavery is, indeed, an evil, and if south. Ern society were to be reconstructed, slavery should, by no means, he introduced as an ele. Ment; but that in present circumstances, and with a view to probable consequences, it cannot reasonably be expected of slaveholders to give up their slaves. This is what we, suppose to he meant, by people's being opposed to slavery in the abstract.'
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