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Questions To Aid In Self-examination: Addressed To Anti-slav...

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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1. Do you take an anti-slnvery paper, and do you pay for it regula' ly? 2. Do you read that paper failhfully and understmidingly, treasuring up íts facía and argumenta for yonr own future use? S. Do you circuíate that paper mong our friends, and point out to them those articles whichyou think best adapted lo their state ofroind? 4. Do yon then take occasion to state to them the great piinciples of the anti-slavery enterprise, ansvvering their objeclions, and in a kxnA spirit urging them to embrace, in principie and practice, the cause of freedom? 5. Do you ín prayer and daily life, remember thoFe n bondsas bound with them?1 6. Do yon practkaüy regard the great qnestion involvcd in the slavery of the U. StateF, ae xmmeasurably more impjrtant than the doljor and cent questions aboul which the irreat political parties ore contending? 7. Do you pray fUr good ru!ers and for thedownfall of slavery; and then vote for an ndulterer, a gambíer a duelist and eluveholder, or for a man who declares he will never consent to the obolition of our national slave.-y, tili the slaveholders of the south ive their opprobation to the measure? 8. Have you contributed any thing, during- the past or present year for the support of the anti-slavery society of your own state?9. If you have no money, havo you given of your subsiance? 10. Have you secnrcd frequent lectures in your to'vn and county? 11. Have you done our best 1o secure a leclurcr, (önri his support whüe laboring,) lo vieit uil your reíbul 12. Have you made, and do you still make, real sacrifices for Ibis object; or do you expect that the lecturer who epends his timo, and wears out his Jife, and is dnüv pierced wilh the poisoned sliafts of falshood hvirled by those whe tel] him they love him, con leavo his family to lack the necessaries of life? 13. Have you pureiias-ed trncts to distribute among your neighbors, and awaken their miridé to ihe subject of human rights? 14. Have you secured the formation of an anti-slavery society in your neighborhood nnd county? 15. Have you done your best to keep alive and render effective the eocieties that have been formod in your vicinity?

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Signal of Liberty
Old News