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Ix.
Thus at this time spoke the Nation.
The Church also joined its voice.
And here, amidst the diversities of religious faith, it is instructive to observe the general accord.
The Quakers first bore their testimony.
At the adoption of the Constitution, the whole body, under the early teaching of George Fox, and by the crowning exertions of Benezet and Wolman, had become an organized band of Abolitionists, penetrated by the conviction that it was unlawful to hold a fellow-man in bondage.
The Methodists, numerous, earnest and faithful, never ceased by their preachers to proclaim the same truth.
Their rules in 1788 denounced, in formal language, the buying or selling of bodies and souls of men, women, and children, with an intention to enslave them.
The words of their great apostle, John Wesley, were constantly repeated.
On the eve of the National Convention the burning tract was circulated, in which he exposes American slavery as the vilest of the world— such Slavery as is