Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 / 2008-07-02 00:00:00
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ANTI-SLAVERY TRACTS. No. 9. New Series.
THE
DUTY OF DISOBEDIENCE
TO THE
FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT:
AN APPEAL TO THE
LEGISLATORS OF MASSACHUSETTS,
BY L. MARIA CHILD.
"Thou shalt _not_ deliver unto his master the servant which is
escaped from his master unto thee."--DEUT. 23:15.
BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. 1860.
APPEAL
TO THE
LEGISLATORS OF MASSACHUSETTS.
I feel there is no need of apologizing to the Legislature of
Massachusetts because a woman addresses them. Sir Walter Scott says:
"The truth of Heaven was never committed to a tongue, however
feeble, but it gave a right to that tongue to announce mercy, while
it declared judgment." And in view of all that women have done, and
are doing, intellectually and morally, for the advancement of the
world, I presume no enlightened legislator will be disposed to deny
that the "truth of Heaven" _is_ often committed to them, and that
they sometimes utter it with a degree of power that greatly
influences the age in which they live.
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