Anti-Slavery
Societies, 100 newspapers boldly advocating the principles of
Abolition. Between 4 and 500 auxiliary associations,
comprising 15 or 1700 Ministers of the Gospel of various
denominations. G. T. stated also a number of particulars,
shewing the rapid progress of correct opinions amongst the
Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists,
producing a Document just received from the last named body,
signed by 185 Clergymen, being a reply to a letter addressed
by the Baptist ministers in and near London to the Baptist
Churches of America, and fully reciprocating all their
sentiments on the subject of immediate and entire
emancipation. The cause was proceeding with accelerated
rapidity. Ten or twelve Agents of the National Society were
incessantly laboring with many others employed by the State
Societies, of which there were seven, viz. Kentucky, (a slave
State,) Ohio, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, and Vermont. Gerrit Smith, Esq. a competent
authority, had stated that every week witnessed an accession
to the ranks of the Abolitionists of not less than 500, in
the State of New York alone, and he did not know that in all
the Societies there was one intemperate or profane person. G.
T. in describing the character of the persons comprising the
Anti-Slavery Societies in America, stated, that they were
universally men and women of religious principles, and, in
most instances, of unquestioned piety. He had never known any
benevolent enterprise carried forward more in dependence upon
Divine Direction and Divine Aid, than the abolition cause in
the United States. In all their meetings, public or social,
they committed themselves to God in Prayer, and he had found
that those who had been most vehemently denounced as
'Fanatics and Incendiaries' were men sound in judgment, calm
in temper, deliberate in council, and prudent, though
resolute, in action. The great principle on which all their
Societies were founded was the essential sinfulness of
slaveholding, and the consequent necessity of its immediate
and entire abolition. The great means by which they had
sought to accomplish their object, was the fearless
publication of the truth in love, addressed to the
understandings and hearts of their fellow citizens.
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