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Excerpt from Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Mass; Anti-Slavery Society: Presented January 22, 1540, With an Appendix
Since the last annual meeting of this Society, a war of exter mination has been waged against it, not less unnatural than ex traordinary but, happily, with very little success. The Mas sachusetts anti-slavery Society is the parentof all the other kin dred societies in the land. It has ever been hated, therefore, with peculiar intensity, by the enemies of the colored race. From the first hour of its existence to the present time, it has pursued the same fearless, uncompromising, straight-forward course, deterred by no danger, disheartened by no opposition, wearied by no effort. Various have beenthe attempts to cripple its influence, to limit its action, to destroy its life. The evil spirit of sectarianism has, from time to time, summoned all its strength to crush the Society, or to transfer its management to other bands. In several instances, direct efforts have been made to supplant it by the formation of a rival Society. Fore most in this crusade have been the colonization, pro-slavery cler gy of the Commonwealth. Convicted of sin for refusing to plead the cause ofall such as are appointed to destruction in our land - rebuked before all the people, without fear or favor, as though they were indeed like other men - stripped of their phar isaical guise, and exhibited in all their time-serving abjectness - conscious that the colonization imposture which they had palmed upon the people stood fully revealed perceivingthat a gradual yet mighty change was taking place in public sentiment favorable to the anti-slavery movement and knowing that they must at least seem to be the opponents ofslavery, without mate rially changing their position, or they would ere long be swept away by a whirlwind of popular indignation - they rallied to gether and organized a society with the sounding title of The American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race. Like the Union of the States, it was composed of the 'most incongruous materials, based upon the shifting-sand of policy, and cemented with selfishness. It was a sad specimen 6.
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