… are erected—itinerant lecturers pervade the land, preaching up to nightly crowds a crusade against … in the pious work of purging the sin of slavery from the land. Gentlemen have told us of the array of the reverend … Say to the abolitionists that this Government will in no event be made an instrument in your hands. Say to the South …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition