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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 3: the Clerical appeal.—1837. (search)
onal at first, distinctly clerical and sectarian. The Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts to Lib. 7.129. the Orthodox Congregational churches under its care was issued about the middle of July. The Association met at Brookfield, June 27, 1837 ( Right and Wrong in Boston, 1837, p. 45). The author of the Pastoral Letter was the Rev. Nehemiah Adams, of Boston, whose apologetic work, A Southside view of slavery (1854), afterwards earned for him the sobriquet of Southside Adams. It had two distinct aims—one, to complete the sealing of the churches against anti-slavery lecturers; the other, to draw off their communicants, both male and female, from the public lectures of the Grimke sisters, who, during the month of June, had excited unprecedented interest in Eastern Massachusetts by their eloquent appeals (generally in churches) on behalf of the slave. Historically, this document marks the transition from the general political use of the New England meeting-ho