A Discourse On the Recapture of Fugitive Slaves Delivered At Stoneham Mass
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Now I can* 1 1 not believe there is a single individual in Stoneham who would turn the hunted fugitive from his door, or refuse him the luxury of a plentiful dinner, or scruple to en- courage him in his escape. I will not allow myself to e so poor an opinion of any man in town, until the contrary is proved to me; and the reason I dwell upon this subject to-d ty, is, that I may, if possible, deepen and strengthen in your minds the conviction that you " ought to obey Hod rut her than man ;" that ...Moses' Fugi- tive Slave Bill, embodied in my text, should be pre- ferred to the bill which has passed the U. S. Congress. And received the official sanction of President Fillmore. Would that our modem Moses, one of the greatest He- brew and Greek scholars that America has ever pro- duced, now resident on yon " Hill of Zion, " about a dozen miles from here, who has recently, as you know, written a work titled " Conscience and the Constitution, " wherein he plausibly argues in favor of the recapture of fugitive slaves, might abandon his unscriptural po- sitions, and endorsing the views of Moses the elder, that divinely-appointed leader of the ancient Hebrews, pro- claim in the ears of the people, " Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee.
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