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The Evangelical Alliance

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tlio American brantth of this boJy liave at lengili organrzed, The business of ilio Alliance is lo bc couducted by tli r ty Coi ncillor ,;ndi Comm tiee will meet lo recoivo members every Tuesday nt a room in the house of the American Trnct Society. All persons wis! ing to become meinbeis must be l' personally known or suiiably authentientrd to the Committee;" nivi above all, must be ''memlers of son e cv: 11 jelu'ttl Cliurcli, in goud and regua' standing." Ou Slavery tl e followiag regulation hns beun ndopied: "Inasmuoli os the peculiar circuinstincos of this country seem to demand an expreysion of sciuiment on tho subject of Slavery, tlis Allinnce declarea that a Hiscrirniiiaiioii is to be made between those who bold ilaves, not by their own fault, or fur the sake of tbeir own aivantaf e , but fïom motives' entirely benevolent, ai.d those ivho hold i h 'i r fellow-creatures in bondogR lorthesake of'gain; .-ml that tho f'rmer ai e tobe regarded asent'tled to f llowship, wliile the lattcr cannot be reaeived as memhers of this Alliance." On this tlie A. S. S:a idard justly re marks, - "This might possihly exc'ude Hope [] 8anghtcr,an ihe en'erprising irariesman whose advertisement of " pancv girls" tnny be f'ound in the letter of our New Bedford correspondent, but hardly another onc of the slaveholders of the Sou: h. Not ono of them would acknowlcdge thal he held his slaves by his own fault. Howcan they, when, as the Rev. Sidney E. Morse says, the frtj] t belongs to their English nncestors. The guilt of Slavery lies wilh the past, and repentance for it wiih the future. Neitlier will ony of them allow tRït they argovernnd by any other than purely benevolent motives in holding slaves. They are not able to t:ike care of themselves. and nothing but the most self-denying and Cliristian charity acluates their masters in pocketing Iheir wages, and giving them a pedí of corn a week, a floorles hut, andone suit of negro-cloth a jear,aa food, lodginsf, and raiment. We doubt if aslaveholder in the land can be found so unreasonable as to complain of the dressing which the Rev. Dr. Cox and his associates have given to this camel to make the swallcwing easy for Southern throats."

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Signal of Liberty
Old News