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Progress Of Anti-slavery

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Day
14
Month
August
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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O. A. Brownson, the noted editor of lbo Bostuii Quarterly Review, in an aiticle abusing abolitionists, is compeüedto acknowledge that llie cause hates so cordially is rapidly advancing. He sas : Iiut we cannoí hhut our eyes to tha Fact that ihey have the syinpathy of a lnrge portiou of the people of the Free Sla;e-=, and that in severa! of the Northern Siates, tliey aro nlready powerfuí enuugh to make it nn object for de mag'igces to bid íbr tiieir suítVuge-s. Botli politica] pnriies pander to them. Even the ndiiiini-lratioii seems to court them; tur it lias appointed frooi this Connnonwealth scarcely an íodividual to a prominent office in its gift, not selected from i lie Abolition section of its friends, - eertainly, no one distinguished for his bold and resoluta opposition to Abuliliou movenients. In the VVhig party, the teiidency to Ábolitionism, or to court the Abolilionists, ií, perhnps, stil] more deci'led than in the Deinocrntic p'irty. ín Mame, Mew Hampíhire, Vermont, Cannectieut, the party, at least just bpfore electioiiF, is almost avowedly Aboütionists and would be in thrs State, were it Bot for u few distinguished leaders, whose in(luence we nre sorry lo see daily declining. oiing Whiglom in nll the Freo Stutes, composcd of young men and b"ys, not to say young misses, wlio are soon to be the Wliig party itself, is virtually an Abolition pa'-ty, and Is leaHer-i aio nenrlyas fur gone ns Garrís n, Phillips. Leivitt, nnd Abby Foster. All ihe sect--, if we excejit, porharw, High Church Episcopal mns, are eilher airead y carried awav bv the Abolition lUnaticisii), or rapidly yielding to it. - The great body of Unitnrian ministers in Now England, once a i-espectable and conservative body of men, exerting, indeed, a bnd iiifluence on religión, yet higbly oommend;ible for politics] and social virtues, arenlmosl to a man now mad and fanática] Socialists and Abolitionists. [f sopte fV:v yet hold out, they are timid und without influeace on the general action of the body of wliich they are mernbers. Nenrly all the young men from Protestant theological seminaries come out infectad, and, wherever settlei as ministers, seek to enlist their congregatimis in the movement.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News