{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_68031/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_68031","id":"gutenberg_68031","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68031","summary":null,"tags":["Abolitionists","American Anti-Slavery Society","Antislavery movements -- United States","Category: History - American","Category: History - Modern (1750+)","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Politics"],"text":"------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n                     _ANTI-SLAVERY TRACTS. No. 14._\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n                  \u201cHOW CAN I HELP TO ABOLISH SLAVERY?\u201d\n\n                                  OR,\n\n                    COUNSELS TO THE NEWLY CONVERTED.\n\n                        BY MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN.\n\nYes, my friend, I can resolve your question. Twenty years of actual\nexperience qualify one to reply. I have stood, as you now stand, on the\nthreshold of this grandest undertaking of any age\u2014this effort to elevate\na whole people in the scale of moral being\u2014with my head full of plans,\nand my heart of devotedness, asking the same question. I really longed\nfor this coming of millennial glory, and therefore soon found the road\non which to go forth to meet it. My disgust was unutterable, as yours,\ntoo, will be, if you desire the abolition of slavery more than the\ntemporary triumph of sect or party, at the stupid schemes by which\nselfish men were then, as now, trying to make capital for themselves out\nof the sacred cause of human rights\u2014seeking to sell the gift of the Holy\nGhost for money. Hear them clamorously and meanly taking advantage of\nignorance, for the promotion of self-interest.\n\nFirst, hear the agents of slavery presenting the colonization scheme as\nthe instrument of abolition.\n\n\u201cAid the Colonization Society.\u201d Yes; to make slavery stronger by\nexalting prejudice as an ordination of divine Providence; to make\nslavery safer by eliminating that dangerous element, the free black; to\nmake its term longer by stultifying national conscience. See that\nsociety making the laws of slave States more cruel, the men of the free\nStates more obdurate, the situation of the free men of color more\ndifficult and insupportable, as a part of its plan. It could not, if it\nwould, transport three millions of souls to Africa; the navies and\nrevenues of the world would be insufficient. It would not, if it could;\nfor slavery has no intention of parting with its three millions of\nvictims; unless induced to free them out of generosity, it will keep\nthem on speculation. Its forty years of colonization labor, and its\nmillion of gold and silver, have exiled fewer to Liberia than have\nescaped into Canada in spite of it\u2014less in that period than the monthly\nincrease of the slaves! It can do nothing for Christianizing Africa, for\nit sends a slaveholding gospel, which is anti-Christ. Be not deceived,\nthen, by a tyrannical mockery like this, working to perpetuate slavery,\nand not to abolish it. Aid the American Anti-Slavery Society, which\ndeals with the heart and conscience of this slaveholding nation,\ndemanding immediate, unconditional emancipation, without expatriation;\nthe abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance, in conformity with\nall your own principles and traditions, whether religious or political.\n\nHear another cry, (coming, not like the first, from the enemies of\nabolition, but from friends, generally those of more pretension than\ndevotedness:) \u201cForm a political party, free soil or other, to vote down\nslavery.\u201d\n\nYes, don\u2019t _kill_ the growing monster\u2014call to him to stop growing; merge\nimmediatism, which always succeeds, in gradualism, which never does.\nSubstitute a secondary object for the primary one. Strive in the first\nplace not to abolish slavery, but to get one set of men out of office\nand another in, to learn by the event that the last are as incapable to\nturn back the whirlpool that masters the government as the first were.\nMake an appeal to force of numbers in a case where you know it is\nagainst you; in a case, too, where, having sworn assistance, you must\nlose influence by such an appeal. Spend your time and money, not in\nmaking new abolitionists, but in counting the old ones, that at every\ncount diminish. Politics, in the common, small sense of the term, merely\ntakes the circumstances it finds, and does its best with them. But the\npresent circumstances are unfavorable. THEN CREATE NEW ONES. This is\ntrue politics, in the enlarged, real meaning of the word. Here is a\nbuilding to be erected, and no sufficient materials. A _little_\nuntempered mortar, a _few_ unbaked bricks\u2014that is all. Go to the deep\nquarries of the human heart, and make of your sons and daughters\npolished stones to build the temple of the Lord. It is this cleaving\ninto the living rock the AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY girds itself to\ndo. Under its operations men become better and better abolitionists.\nUnder the labors of political partisanship they necessarily grow worse\nand worse. They must ever ask themselves how _little_ anti-slavery\nfeeling and principle they can make serve the temporary turn; because\nthe less of either, the greater the chance. They must always be\nsacrificing the end to the means. Call them to the witness box in their\ncapacity of philosophical observers, and out of their little\ncircumventing political characters, and themselves will tell you that\nthe effect of electioneering on anti-slavery is most unfavorable, adding\nto the existing opposition to right the fury of party antagonism,\nthrowing away the balance of power, lowering the tone of moral and\nreligious feeling and action, and thus letting a sacred enterprise\ndegenerate into a scramble for office. But labor with the AMERICAN\nANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY _directly_ to the great end, and even Franklin\nPierce and Co., pro-slavery as they are, will grovel to do your bidding.\nThe administration now _on_ the throne is as good for your bidding as\nany other. In a republican land the power behind the throne is _the_\npower. Save yourself the trouble of calling caucuses, printing party\njournals, distributing ballots, and the like. Let men who are fit for\nnothing of more consequence do this little work, which is best done by\nmere nobodies. _More_ than enough of them are always ready for it. You,\nwho are smitten by the sacred beauty of the great cause, should serve it\ngreatly. Don\u2019t drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and\nwater and flame, like an engineer. The AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY has\nlaid the track.\n\n\u201cBuy slaves and set them free.\u201d Yes; lop the branches and strengthen the\nroot; make the destruction of the system more difficult by practising\nupon it; create a demand for the slave breeder to supply; compromise\nwith crime; raise the market price, when you ought to stop the market;\nput a philanthropic mark upon the slave trade; spend money enough in\nbuying one man to free fifty gratis, and convert a thousand. But there\nis a _wholesale_ way, cries one. \u201cSell the public lands, and set every\nmeans in motion, from the merely mercantile donation of a million to the\ninfant cent society, and thus raise two thousand millions of dollars,\nand beg the slaveholders to take it, (not as compensation, but as a\ntoken of good will,) and let their bondmen go.\u201d I marvel at this\ninsufficient notion of the heart of a slaveholder. I wonder exceedingly\nat such a want of imagination. \u201cNot as compensation\u201d is well put; for\nwhat sum can compensate a monarch for his throne? This system of slavery\nmakes the south the parent of long lines of princes. It gives to her\ndiabolical dominions\n\n    \u201cKingdoms, and sway, and strength, and length of days.\u201d\n\nI am strangely divided in sympathy. I feel at once the generosity of the\nproposal, and have the feeling of contempt with which its insufficient\ninappropriateness is received.\n\n\u201cOrganize vigilance committees, and establish underground railroads.\u201d\nYes; hide from tyranny, instead of defying it; _whisper_ a testimony;\nform a bad habit of mind in regard to despotism; try to keep out the sea\nwith a mop, when you ought to build a dike; flatter your sense of\ncompassion by taking private retail measures to have suffering\nameliorated, when you might, with the AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, be\ntaking public wholesale measures to have _wrong_ (the cause of\nsuffering) _righted_. You may safely leave with the half and quarter\nconverted, with the slaveholders, nay, even with the Curtises, the\ncharge of all these things, which without the American Anti-Slavery\nSociety are but as hydrogen and nitrogen without oxygen, however good\nwith it, as the natural fruits of its labors. What I would discourage\nis, not mercy and compassion in an individual case, but a disgraceful\nmistake in the economy of well doing; spending in salving a sore finger\nwhat would buy the elixir vit\u00e6; preferring the less, which _ex_cludes\nthe greater, to the greater, which _in_cludes the less. Slavery can only\nbe abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the\nnation; and _that_ can be done only by showing them a higher one. Now,\nthere is _one_ thing that can\u2019t be done in _secret_; you can\u2019t _set a\ngood example under a bushel_.\n\n\u201cBut instruction! instruction! found schools and churches for the\nblacks, and thus _prepare_ for the abolition of slavery.\u201d O, shallow and\nshortsighted! the _demand_ is the _preparation_; nothing can supply the\nplace of _that_. And _exclusive_ instruction, teaching for _blacks_, a\nschool founded on color, a church in which men are herded ignominiously,\napart from the refining influence of association with the more highly\neducated and accomplished,\u2014what are they? A direct way of fitting white\nmen for tyrants, and black men for slaves. No; if you would teach and\nChristianize the nation, strengthen the AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,\nthe _only_ American institution founded on the Christian and republican\nidea of the equal brotherhood of man, and in opposition to a church and\nstate which deny human brotherhood by sanctioning slavery, and pull down\nChrist to their own level. The American Anti-Slavery Society is church\nand university, high school and common school to all who need real\ninstruction and true religion. Of it what a throng of authors, editors,\nlawyers, orators, and accomplished gentlemen of color have taken their\ndegree! It has equally implanted hopes and aspirations, noble thoughts\nand sublime purposes in the hearts of both races. It has prepared the\nwhite man for the freedom of the black man, and it has made the black\nman scorn the thought of enslavement, as does a white man, as far as its\ninfluence has extended. _Strengthen that noble influence._ Before its\norganization, the country only saw here and there in slavery some\n\u201cfaithful Cudjoe or Dinah,\u201d whose strong natures blossomed even in\nbondage, like a fine plant beneath a heavy stone. Now, under the\nelevating and cherishing influence of the American Anti-Slavery Society,\nthe colored race, like the white, furnishes Corinthian capitals for the\nnoblest temples. Aroused by the American Anti-Slavery Society, the very\nwhite men who had forgotten and denied the claim of the black man to the\nrights of humanity now thunder that claim at every gate, from cottage to\ncapital, from school house to university, from the railroad carriage to\nthe house of God. He has a place at their firesides, a place in their\nhearts\u2014the man whom they once cruelly hated for his color. So feeling,\nthey _cannot_ send him to Coventry with a horn-book in his hand, and\ncall it _instruction_! They inspire him to climb to their side by a\nvisible acted gospel of freedom. Thus, instead of bowing to prejudice,\nthey conquer it.\n\n\u201cEstablish free-labor warehouses.\u201d Indeed! is that a good business\ncalculation that leads to expend in search of the products of free labor\nthe time and money that would make all labor free? While wrong exists in\nthe world, you cannot (short of suicide) but draw your every life breath\nin involuntary connection with it; nor is conscience to be satisfied\nwith any thing short of a complete devotion to the anti-slavery cause of\nthe life that is sustained by slavery. We _may_ draw good out of evil:\nwe _must not_ do evil, that good may come. Yet I counsel you to honor\nthose who eat no sugar, as _you_ ask no questions for conscience\u2019s sake;\nwhile you despise those who thrust forward such a call upon conscience,\n_impossible_, in the nature of things, to be obeyed, and therefore not\nbinding, as if it were the end of the law for righteousness, in order to\ninjure Garrison, the great and good founder of the American Anti-Slavery\nSociety. I have seen men stand drawing bills of exchange between England\nand the United States, while uttering maledictions against the American\nAnti-Slavery Society, because it does not, as such, occupy itself with\nthe free produce question. This I brand as pro-slavery in disguise\u2014sheer\nhypocrisy.\n\nYou see, my friend, that I have replied to your question in the\nconviction that you desire the abolition of slavery above all other\nthings in this world; as one assured that it is the great work of\nChristianity in our age and country, as the conflict with idolatry was\nin other times and climes. Thus you see the salvation of the souls, the\nmaintenance of the rights, the fulfilment of the duties, and the\npreservation of the free institutions of Americans, to depend upon the\nextirpation of this accursed and disgraceful disease which is destroying\nthem. If I had reason to think you merely desirous to make sectarian and\npolitical capital out of a holy thought and a sacred purpose originated\nby others\u2014if you were merely contriving defences for what is\nindefensible, and trying to save the credit of what is disgraceful,\ntrying to throw dust, and change the issue, and pay tithes of cumin to\ndelay justice, in order to spare your own insignificant self in this\ngreatest conflict of light and darkness, good and evil, which the world\nhas now to show\u2014if you had been trying how to _seem_ creditably\ninterested in what ought to be an American\u2019s first business, and\ncalculating _how little_ instead of _how much_ you might sacrifice to\nthe soul-exalting cause of freedom\u2014if you were but trying to get\nyourself or some friend into office by the judicious use of ideas which,\nas a republican and a Christian, you ought to give yourself wholly to be\nused by\u2014if you were the hired agent of some demisemiquaver of a movement\nwhich tacked anti-slavery to its other titles, in order to establish a\nclaim on the purses of abolitionists\u2014in any of these cases I would not\nhave stopped to talk with you. Your interest being the thing you had at\nheart, I should not _counsel_; I should be called, in the name of all\nthat is holy, to _condemn_ you, in order that blame might awaken\nconscience. But the case, I trust, is different. I may, then, say to\nyou, with all the confidence, nay, certainty, which is inseparable from\nexperience, knowledge, and utter self-abnegation in the matter, WORK\nWITH THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. Lavish your time, your money,\nyour labors, your prayers, in that field, which is the world, and you\nwill reap a thousand fold, now and hereafter. This movement _moves_. It\nis alive. Hear how every thing mean and selfish struggles, hisses, and\ndies under its influence. Never, since the world was, has any effort\nbeen so clear, so strong, so uncompromising, so ennobling, so holy, and,\nlet me add, so successful. It is \u201cthe bright consummate flower\u201d of the\nChristianity of the nineteenth century. Look at those who \u201chave not\nresisted the heavenly vision\u201d it presented them of a nation overcoming\nits evil propensities, and doing right at all risks; ask _them_ whether\nit has not saved their souls alive; ask _them_ if it has not made them\nworshippers of the beauty and sublimity of high character, till they are\nready to \u201cknow nothing on earth but Jesus Christ and him crucified.\u201d For\nthis they give all\u2014wealth, youth, health, strength, life. Worldly\nsuccess, obtained by slackening their labors against slavery, (and it is\neasy to have it on those terms at any moment, so placable a monster is\nthe world,) strikes them like failure and disgrace. They have \u201cscorned\ndelights, and lived laborious days,\u201d till at length they feel it no\nsacrifice, but the highest joy. All this the American Anti-Slavery\nSociety demands of _you_. DO IT! and be most grateful for the\nopportunity of fulfilling a work which is its own exceeding great\nreward. DO IT, and find yourself the chosen of God, to keep alive in\nthis nation, degraded and corrupted by slavery, the noble flame of\nChristian faith, the sentiment of honor and fidelity, the instinct of\nhigh-mindedness, the sense of absolute, immutable duty, the charm of\nchivalrous and poetic feeling, which would make of the poorest Americans\nthe Christian gentlemen of the world.\n\n              \u201cCherish all these high feelings that become\n              A giver of the gift of liberty.\u201d\n\nYou will find yourself under the necessity of doing it in _this_ noble\ncompany, or _alone_. Try it. Strive to be perfect, as God is perfect\u2014to\nact up to your own highest idea, in connection with church or state in\nthis land corrupted by slavery, and see if you are helped or hindered.\nBe not dragged along by them protesting. It is graceing as a slave the\nchariot wheels of a triumph. But flee from them, as one flees out of\nBabylon. Secure the blessing of union for good, and be delivered from\nthe curse of union in evil, by acting with the AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY\nSOCIETY, its members and friends.\n\nI use this mode of expression advisedly, for I am not speaking of a mere\nform of association. Many are in harmonious co\u00f6peration with it who have\nneither signed the constitution nor subscribed the annual half dollar.\nHence it is neither a formality nor a ceremony, but a united,\nonward-flowing current of noble lives.\n\nIf, then, you feel that devotedness of heart which I verily think your\nquestion indicates, I feel free to counsel you to go _immediately_ to\nthe nearest office of the American Anti-Slavery Society,[1] by letter,\nif not in person, subscribe what money you can afford\u2014the first fruits\nof a life-long liberality, and _study_ the cause like a science, while\npromoting it like a gospel, under the cheering and helpful sympathy of\nsome of the best company on earth; _but not unless_; for _this_ company\ndespises what politicians, ecclesiastical and other, call \u201cgetting\npeople committed.\u201d They have a horror of this selfish invasion of\nanother\u2019s freedom, as of the encumbrance of selfish help. They warn you\nnot to touch the ark with unhallowed hands.\n\nOne consideration more\u2014the thought of what you owe to your forerunners\nin what you feel to be the truth. It is, to follow meekly after, and be\nbaptized with the baptism that they are baptized with. \u201cThus it\n_becometh_ us to fulfil all righteousness;\u201d and the more your talents,\ngifts, and graces may, in your own judgment, be superior to theirs, the\nmore _becoming_ it will be to seek their fellowship; for in the whole\nland they, and _they alone_, _are right_. It is not eulogy, but fact,\nthat theirs is the path of the just, shining more and more unto the\nperfect day\u2014denied only by the besotted with injustice, the committed to\ncrime. Consider, then, not only what you owe to your slavery-cursed\ncountry, your enslaving as well as enslaved countrymen, your fathers\u2019\nmemory, your remotest posterity, the Christian religion, which forbids\nthe sacrifice of one man\u2019s rights to another man\u2019s interests, and which\nknows no distinction of caste, color, or condition,\u2014but consider, also,\nwhat you owe to those individuals and to that brotherhood who have\nbattled twenty years in the breach for _your_ freedom, involved with\nthat of the meanest slave.\n\nImagine how the case stood with those who perished by suffocation in the\nBlack Hole at Calcutta. Suppose that some of their number had felt the\nsublime impulse to place their bodies in the door, and the high devoted\nhearts to stand the crushing till dawn awoke the tyrant; the _rest_ of\nthat doomed band might have passed out alive. This is what the American\nAnti-Slavery Society has been unflinchingly doing for you, and for the\nrest of the nation, amid torture, insult, and curses, through a long\nnight of terror and despair. The life of the land, its precious moral\nsense, has been thus kept from suffocation. The free agitating air of\nfaithful speech has saved it. The soul of the United States is not dead,\nthanks, under Providence, to that noble fellowship of resolute souls, to\nfind whom the nation has been winnowed. Do your duty by them, in the\nname of self-respect. Such companionship is an honor accorded to but\nfew, and of that worthy few I would fain count you one. Strike, then,\nwith them at the existence of slavery, and you will see individual\nslaves made free, anti-slavery leaven introduced into parties and\nchurches, instruction diffused, the products of free labor multiplied,\nand fugitives protected, in exact proportion to the energy of the grand\nonset against the civil system.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTE. The work of the American Anti-Slavery Society is carried on by\nnewspapers, books, tracts, agents, meetings, and conventions. The donor\nis requested to specify to what department, and in what section of\ncountry, he wishes his contribution applied.\n\n-----\n\nFootnote 1:\n\n  For the local offices, see bottom of page 12.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n           CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.\n\n               FORMED IN PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 4, 1833.\n\nWhereas the Most High God \u201chath made of one blood all nations of men to\ndwell on all the face of the earth,\u201d and hath commanded them to love\ntheir neighbors as themselves; and whereas our national existence is\nbased upon this principle, as recognized in the Declaration of\nIndependence, \u201cthat all mankind are created equal, and that they are\nendowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which\nare life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;\u201d and whereas, after the\nlapse of nearly sixty years, since the faith and honor of the American\npeople were pledged to this avowal before Almighty God and the world,\nnearly one sixth part of the nation are held in bondage by their\nfellow-citizens; and whereas slavery is contrary to the principles of\nnatural justice, of our republican form of government, and of the\nChristian religion, and is destructive of the prosperity of the country,\nwhile it is endangering the peace, union, and liberties of the States;\nand whereas we believe it the duty and interest of the masters\nimmediately to emancipate their slaves, and that no scheme of\nexpatriation, either voluntary or by compulsion, can remove this great\nand increasing evil; and whereas we believe that it is practicable, by\nappeals to the consciences, hearts, and interests of the people, to\nawaken a public sentiment throughout the nation that will be opposed to\nthe continuance of slavery in any part of the republic, and by effecting\nthe speedy abolition of slavery, prevent a general convulsion; and\nwhereas we believe we owe it to the oppressed, to our fellow-citizens\nwho hold slaves, to our whole country, to posterity, and to God, to do\nall that is lawfully in our power to bring about the extinction of\nslavery, we do hereby agree, with a prayerful reliance on the divine\naid, to form ourselves into a society to be governed by the following\nconstitution:\u2014\n\nARTICLE I.\u2014This society shall be called the AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY\nSOCIETY.\n\nARTICLE II.\u2014The objects of this society are the entire abolition of\nslavery in the United States. While it admits that each State in which\nslavery exists has, by the constitution of the United States, the\nexclusive right to _legislate_ in regard to its abolition in said State,\nit shall aim to convince all our fellow-citizens, by arguments addressed\nto their understandings and consciences, that slaveholding is a heinous\ncrime in the sight of God, and that the duty, safety, and best interests\nof all concerned require its _immediate abandonment_, without\nexpatriation. The society will also endeavor, in a constitutional way,\nto influence Congress to put an end to the domestic slave trade, and to\nabolish slavery in all those portions of our common country which come\nunder its control, especially in the District of Columbia, and likewise\nto prevent the extension of it to any State that may be hereafter\nadmitted to the Union.\n\nARTICLE III.\u2014This society shall aim to elevate the character and\ncondition of the people of color, by encouraging their intellectual,\nmoral, and religious improvement, and by removing public prejudice, that\nthus they may, according to their intellectual and moral worth, share an\nequality with the whites of civil and religious privileges; but this\nsociety will never, in any way, countenance the oppressed in vindicating\ntheir rights by resorting to physical force.\n\nARTICLE IV.\u2014Any person who consents to the principles of this\nconstitution, who contributes to the funds of this society, and is not a\nslaveholder, may be a member of this society, and shall be entitled to\nvote at the meetings.\n\nARTICLE V.\u2014The officers of this society shall be a president,\nvice-presidents, a recording secretary, corresponding secretaries, a\ntreasurer, and an executive committee of not less than five nor more\nthan twelve members.\n\nARTICLE VI.\u2014The executive committee shall have power to enact their own\nby-laws, fill any vacancy in their body, and in the offices of secretary\nand treasurer, employ agents, determine what compensation shall be paid\nto agents and to the corresponding secretaries, direct the treasurer in\nthe application of all moneys, and call special meetings of the society.\nThey shall make arrangements for all meetings of the society, make an\nannual written report of their doings, the expenditures and funds of the\nsociety, and shall hold stated meetings, and adopt the most energetic\nmeasures in their power to advance the objects of the society. They may,\nif they shall see fit, appoint a board of assistant managers, composed\nof not less than three nor more than seven persons residing in New York\ncity, or its vicinity, whose duty it shall be to render such assistance\nto the committee in conducting the affairs of the society as the\nexigencies of the cause may require. To this board they may from time to\ntime confide such of their own powers as they may deem necessary to the\nefficient conduct of the society\u2019s business. The board shall keep a\nrecord of its proceedings, and furnish a copy of the same for the\ninformation of the committee, as often as may be required.\n\nARTICLE VII.\u2014The president shall preside at all meetings of the society,\nor, in his absence, one of the vice-presidents, or, in their absence, a\npresident pro tem. The corresponding secretaries shall conduct the\ncorrespondence of the society. The recording secretary shall notify all\nmeetings of the society and of the executive committee, and shall keep\nrecords of the same in separate books. The treasurer shall collect the\nsubscriptions, make payments at the direction of the executive\ncommittee, and present a written and audited account to accompany the\nannual report.\n\nARTICLE VIII.\u2014The annual meeting of the society shall be held each year\nat such time and place as the executive committee may direct, when the\naccounts of the treasurer shall be presented, the annual report read,\nappropriate addresses delivered, the officers chosen, and such other\nbusiness transacted as shall be deemed expedient.\n\nARTICLE IX.\u2014Any anti-slavery society or association founded on the same\nprinciples may become auxiliary to this society. The officers of each\nauxiliary society shall be ex officio members of the parent institution,\nand shall be entitled to deliberate and vote in the transactions of its\nconcerns.\n\nARTICLE X.\u2014This constitution may be amended, at any annual meeting of\nthe society, by a vote of two thirds of the members present, provided\nthe amendments proposed have been previously submitted, in writing, to\nthe executive committee.\n\n                  *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Published for gratuitous distribution, at the Office of the_ AMERICAN\nANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, _No. 138 Nassau Street, New York_. _Also to be had\nat the Anti-Slavery Offices, No. 21 Cornhill, Boston, and No. 31 North\nFifth Street, Philadelphia; and at the Anti-Slavery Depository, Salem,\nColumbiana Co., Ohio._\n\n                          Transcriber\u2019s Notes\n\nSome inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, punctuation, and\ntypography have been retained.\n\nThis file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text.","title":"\"How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery?\" or, Counsels to the Newly Converted","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":4661}