pulpits and their communion
tables those who buy, or sell, or hold as property, the image of
the living God.

This resolution was supported by Miss Grew, Lucretia Mott, Abby Kelly,
Maria W. Chapman, Anne W. Weston, Sarah T. Smith, and Sarah Lewis; and
opposed by Margaret Dye, Margaret Prior, Henrietta Wilcox, Martha W.
Storrs, Juliana A. Tappan, Elizabeth M. Southard, and Charlotte
Woolsey. Those who voted in the negative stated that they fully
concurred with their sisters in the belief that slaveholders and their
apologists were guilty before God, and that with the former, Northern
Christians should hold no fellowship; but that, as it was their full
belief that there was moral power sufficient in the Church, if rightly
applied, to purify it, they could not feel it their duty to withdraw
until the utter inefficiency of the means used should constrain them
to believe the Church totally corrupt. And as an expression of their
views, Margaret Dye moved the following resolution:

_Resolved_, That the system of American slavery is contrary to
the laws of God and the spirit of true religion, and that the
Church is deeply implicated in this sin, and that it therefore
becomes the imperative duty of her members to petition their
ecclesiastical bodies to enter their decided protests against it,
and exclude slaveholders from their pulpits and communion tables.

The last session was opened by the reading of the sixth chapter of 2
Corinthians, and prayer by Sarah M. Grimke. An Address to Anti-Slavery
Societies was read by Sarah T. Smith, and adopted. We copy from it the
plea and argument for woman's right and duty to be interested in all
questions of public welfare:

ADDRESS TO ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETIES.

DEAR FRIENDS:--In that love for our cause which knows not the
fear of man, we address you in confidence that our motives will
be understood and regarded. We fear not censure from you for
going beyond the circle which has been drawn around us by
physical force, by mental usurpation, by the usages of ages; not
any one of which can we admit gives the right to prescribe it;
else might the monarchs of the old world sit firmly on their
thrones, the nobility of Europe lord it over the man of low
degree, and the chains we are now seeking to break, continue
riveted, on the neck of the slave. Our faith goes not back to the
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