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99 human family is sold into perpetual slavery to evangelize the other.

The Abolitionists are charged with exaggerating slavery, because they preach a free Gospel, and because they avow what God teaches and declares to be right, viz., equal rights to all men; because they declare that slavery is a sin not to be mitigated, but immediately and unconditionally abolished; because the Churches and Ministers who do not "lift up their voice like a trumpet and show Israel their transgressions, and Jacob their sins," are in dereliction of their duty, and thereby have failed to give practical demonstration of Evangelical Christianity, and the true representatives of Christ. Slavery means to rob the poor of their wages, to rob men and women of their liberty (a God-given right), to rob the husband of his wife, wife of husband, father of son, mother of daughter, brother of sister, and has closed the door of knowledge against them, and deprived them of the religion of Christ. It includes licentiousness, concubinage, drunkenness, and in short every thing the human tongue is capable of uttering is found in the one word ""; it is, therefore, impossible to exaggerate it. Injustice may be done to human masters