II.
_Resolved_, That the abolitionists of Maine, and of the British
Provinces, resident near the summer haunts of said geese, be requested
to consider whether measures may not be adopted whereby anti-slavery
tracts, and card-pictures illustrating the atrocious cruelties of
slavery, and appeals to the consciences of the South, or at least
instructions to the colored people as to their right and duty to assert
their liberty, may not be fastened to these birds of passage, to make
them apostles of liberty; so that while they continue to disregard the
bleeding cause of humanity, their very cackle may be converted into lays
of freedom.
III.
Whereas we read in the Revelation a description of the wall of heaven as
having "on the South three gates," a number equal to that assigned to
the North,
_Resolved_, That this description being in total disregard of the great
modern anti-slavery movement, the book which contains it cannot have
been divinely inspired; and that a true anti-slavery Bible would have
represented those pro-slavery gates as shut, with the inscription over
them: Enter from the North.
IV.
_Resolved_, That the great abolitionist who represents himself in his
speeches as baptizing his dogs, in just ridicule of the baptism of
chattel slaves, is worthy, with his dogs, of a place in the heavens
among the constellations; and that anti-slavery astronomers be requested
to make a Southern constellation for them somewhere near the head of The
Serpent, as rivals to "_Canes Venatici_," which pro-slavery astronomers
no doubt designed, in blasphemous profanation of the heavens, to
represent their bloodhounds hunting fugitive slaves, placing it in
disgusting proximity to our own Northern _Ursa Major_.
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