cken lambs of Christ.

To cast one thought towards them, may well cause us to bow down
our heads in the very dust with shame. No wonder that professing
to love Christ and his religion, we do not like to hear them
spoken of; for so far from feeding the lambs of Christ, we are
exciting the whole associated power of this land, to keep them
from being fed. 'Feed my lambs,' We might feed them with
fraternal sympathy, with hope, with freedom, the imperishable
bread of Heaven. We might lead them into green pastures and
still waters, into the glorious liberty wherewith Christ died to
make all men free, the liberty of the children of God. We might
secure to them the exercise of every sacred affection and
faculty, wherewith the Creator has endowed them. But we do none
of those things. We suffer this great flock of the Lord Jesus to
be treated as chattels, bought and sold, like beasts of burden,
hunted and lacerated by dogs and wolves. I say we, we of these
Free Northern communities, because it is by our allowance,
signified as effectually by silence, as by active co-operation,
that such things are. They could continue so, scarcely an hour,
were not the whole moral, religious and physical power of the
North pledged to their support. Are we not in closest league and
union with those who claim and use the right to buy and sell
human beings, God's poor, the lambs of Christ, a union, which we
imagine brings us in as much silver and gold as compensates for
the sacrifice of our humanity and manhood? Nay, are we not under
a law to do the base work of bloodhounds, hunting the panting
fugitives for freedom? I utter no word of denunciation. There is
no need. For facts that have occurred only within the last week,
transcend all denunciation. Only a few hours ago, there was a
man with his two sons, hurried back into the inhuman bondage,
from which they had just escaped, and that man, the brother, and
those two sons, the nephews of a colored clergyman of New York,
of such eminence in the New School Presbyterian Church, that he
has received the honors of a European University, and has acted
as Moderator in one of the Presbyteries of the same Church, when
held in the city where he resides. Almost at the very moment the
poor fugitive with his children, were dragged through our city,
the General Assem