Appeal to the Christian Women of the South e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Solomon says, faithful are the wounds of a friend. I do not believe the time has yet come when Christian women will not endure sound doctrine, even on the subject of Slavery, if it is spoken to them in tenderness and love, therefore I now address you.<br><br>To all of you then, known or unknown, relatives or strangers, (for you are all one in Christ,) I would speak. I have felt for you at this time, when unwelcome light is pouring in upon the world on the subject of slavery; light which even Christians would exclude, if they could, from our country, or at any rate from the southern portion of it, saying, as its rays strike the rock bound coasts of New England and scatter their warmth and radiance over her hills and valleys, and from thence travel onward over the Palisades of the Hudson, and down the soft flowing waters of the Delaware and gild the waves of the Potomac, hitherto shalt thou come and no further; I know that even professors of His name who has been emphatically called the Light of the world would, if they could, build a wall of adamant around the Southern States whose top might reach unto heaven, in order to shut out the light which is bounding from mountain to mountain and from the hills to the plains and valleys beneath, through the vast extent of our Northern States. But believe me, when I tell you, their attempts will be as utterly fruitless as were the efforts of the builders of Babel; and why? Because moral, like natural light, is so extremely subtle in its nature as to overleap all human barriers, and laugh at the puny efforts of man to control it. All the excuses and palliations of this system must inevitably be swept away, just as other refuges of lies have been, by the irresistible torrent of a rectified public opinion. The supporters of the slave system, says Jonathan Dymond in his admirable work on the Principles of Morality, will hereafter be regarded