MESSRS EDITORS
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MESSRS EDITORS
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From the Genius of Temperance.
MESSRS EDITORS,
There are thousands upon thousands who are inquiring at the present time, what can be done to overthrow slavery. They are anxious to do something, but what to do they find not. I will therefore propose a measure which, if adopted by all who wish to see slavery done away, will produce the desired effect—a measure which could be very easily adopted—which would cost neither blood nor treasure—and which surely will be adopted, if people care one half for the subject which they seem to do. The measure is this:—to practice 'total abstinence' from slave productions. Let free labor stores be established, and let the opposers of slavery patronize them, rather than others. In order to this, let Anti-Slavery Societies be organized, after the manner of Temperance Societies, and thus let the friends of the cause act in concert. Let there be Anti-Slavery Agents employed to scour the free states, and rouse up the people to the great measure of 'total abstinence' from the productions above mentioned. And it is self-evident, that if the market for slave productions should cease, slavery itself must cease.
Now, Messrs. Editors, there must be a beginning somewhere in this movement; and where in all this country, could it begin better than here, in this commercial metropolis?
I do therefore propose, that an Anti-Slavery meeting be called forthwith, for the purpose of adopting such measures as in their opinion will tend to overthrow slavery. And who can tell but such a meeting would be the commencement of a movement that would result in the accomplishment of this great object? Let us at least 'TRY.'
HUMANITAS.
MESSRS EDITORS,
There are thousands upon thousands who are inquiring at the present time, what can be done to overthrow slavery. They are anxious to do something, but what to do they find not. I will therefore propose a measure which, if adopted by all who wish to see slavery done away, will produce the desired effect—a measure which could be very easily adopted—which would cost neither blood nor treasure—and which surely will be adopted, if people care one half for the subject which they seem to do. The measure is this:—to practice 'total abstinence' from slave productions. Let free labor stores be established, and let the opposers of slavery patronize them, rather than others. In order to this, let Anti-Slavery Societies be organized, after the manner of Temperance Societies, and thus let the friends of the cause act in concert. Let there be Anti-Slavery Agents employed to scour the free states, and rouse up the people to the great measure of 'total abstinence' from the productions above mentioned. And it is self-evident, that if the market for slave productions should cease, slavery itself must cease.
Now, Messrs. Editors, there must be a beginning somewhere in this movement; and where in all this country, could it begin better than here, in this commercial metropolis?
I do therefore propose, that an Anti-Slavery meeting be called forthwith, for the purpose of adopting such measures as in their opinion will tend to overthrow slavery. And who can tell but such a meeting would be the commencement of a movement that would result in the accomplishment of this great object? Let us at least 'TRY.'
HUMANITAS.
Creator
HUMANITAS
Source
The Liberator
Date
11.26.1831
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HUMANITAS, “MESSRS EDITORS,” No Stain of Tears and Blood, accessed October 22, 2026, https://productsoffreelabor.com/items/show/154.
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