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The Price Of Blood

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
November
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Il was a pitiful sum which Judas received as the price of his Lord and Master. Thirty pieces ofsilver! A poor reward for sucha treasure; yet it is about as much as usually fallsto the lot of hiin whois base enough lo betray; for, as has been often remarked, bad men like treason, but they despise the traitor. And so it happens to ourgreat national ecclesiastical organizations, which, for the sake ofsecuring the donations of the South have bowed down to the Moloch of Slavery, and betrayed the cause of Jesus. - Among oiher instances which might be named, observe that of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In order lo conciliaie the South, the whole nfluence of this powerful association, with lis hundreds of ministers nnd churches auxiliary, has been and still is thrown into the scale of slavery; and what is the reward? Less in proportion surcly than Judas Iscariot receivedl By looking at the receipts of that Society for 1839, it will be found that, while the whole amount was 231.000 dollars, of which 72,000 was from Massachusetts, only ten thousand wascontributed by all the slave States 11 For this paltry sum, then, of 10,000 dollars, all the influence of that mammoth institution is thrown into the pro-slavery scale: to the disgrace of the free States, to the injury of the poor down-trodden slave, and tho dishonor of a