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1 William Goodell, One More Appeal: To Professors of Religion, Ministers, and Churches, Who Are Not Enlisted in the Struggle against Slavery 1 (1843)

handle is hein.religion/onmoap0001 and id is 1 raw text is: TRACT N 7. ONE MORE APPEAL TO PROFESSORS OF RELIGION, MINISTERS, AND CHURCIIES, WHO ARE NOT ENLISTED IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SLAVERY. BY WILLIAM GOODELL, ESQ., N. Y. You profess to be Christians -created anew in Christ Jesus unto good works; set for the defence of the gospel; the salt of the earth and light of the world. Yours is a good profession, a high calling, an exalted position. Your power of doing good or of doing evil is the most mighty power in the nation, the most potent wielded by men upon earth; and your responsibilities are in proportion to your powers. Whoever refuses or neglects to examine great questions of' Christian morality and duty, you may not innocently or safely neglect or refuse. Whoever may be excused from action, where the destiny of souls and the glory of God are concerned, you, most assuredly, can- not be excused. Whoever may listen to the suggestions of carnal ease, worldly policy, or ambition, you may not thus listen. Whoever may clove their eyes upon surrounding abominations, and the dangers of the church, or their ears to the cry of the poor, you certainly can have no excuse fbr closing. ours. THE CASE STATED. - Come, then; consider the oppressions and abominations that are done in this land of Bibles and sanctuaries, of churches and Sabbaths! Hear the cry of nearly three millions of your countrymen, including about two hundred thousand members of churches of your own sects. Run over the catalogue of their wrongs. See them chattelized - reduced to the condition of things, reputed and adjudged in law to be brute beasts ; - denied the prerogatives of men; forbidden to hold property, or to contract marriage; herded together like swine ; denied the sanctities of the family relation; torn from each other and sold, without regard to the ties which bind husband and wife, parent and child; denied the means of education; forbidden to read the Bible, or assemble freely to worship according to the dictates of their con- sciences, with none to molest or make afraid; driven to unrequited labor with the lash; existing, not for themselves, but as the append- ages of others; degraded, crusheo defenceless, utterly unprotected by law, at the mercy of their oppressors, entirely subject to the will 49

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