And we do hereby request all the friends of freedom now
travelling in despotic countries to make inquiry as to the most approved
methods of persuading the mind by appeals to it through the
sensibilities of the flesh, and to be prepared with this information
against the time when the sublime march of abolition philanthropy shall
arrive at the limits of forbearance with all the Northern advocates of
oppression.
XI.
Whereas no one who holds slaves can be a Christian; and whereas Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob were slave-holders, Abraham himself having owned more
slaves than any Southerner; and whereas a synonyme of heaven, in the New
Testament, is "Abraham's bosom;" and whereas no true friend of freedom
can consistently have Christian communion with slave-holders,
_Resolved_, That we look with deep interest to the introduction among us
of the principles of the Hindoo philosophy and religion (including the
transmigration of souls), through tentative articles in our magazines;
by which there is opening to us a way of escape from that heaven one
exponent of which is, to lie in the bosom of a slave-holder.
XII.
And in conclusion,
_Be it Resolved_, That Bunker Hill was since Mount Sinai, that Faneuil
Hall is far in advance of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness; and that our
anti-slavery literature is immeasurably beyond epistles to Philemon and
other inspired pro-slavery tracts.
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