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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
, awake, Pennsylvania's watchword, with Freedom at stake, Thrilling up from each valley, flung down from each height, ‘Our Country and Liberty! God for the Right!’ 1837. The Pastoral Letter. The General Association of Congregational ministers in Massachusetts met at Brookfield, June 27, 1837, and issued a Pastoral Letter to the churches under its care. The immediate occasion of it was the profound sensation produced by the recent public lecture in Massachusetts by Angelina and Sarah Grimke, two noble women from South Carolina, who bore their testimony against slavery. The Letter demanded that the perplexed and agitating subjects which are now common amongst us . . . should not be forced upon any church as matters for debate, at the hazard of alienation and division, and called attention to the dangers now seeming to threaten the female character with widespread and permanent injury. So, this is all,—the utmost reach Of priestly power the mind to fetter! When laymen thin<