Well may the Southern slaveholder say, that holding their Fellow
men in Bondage is no sin, because it is their delight as the
Egyptians, so do they; but nevertheless God in his own good time
will bring them out by a mighty hand, as it is recorded in the
sacred oracles of truth, that Ethiopia shall soon stretch out
her hands to God, speaking in the positive (shall). And my
prayer is to you, oh, slaveholder, in the name of that God who
in the beginning said, Let there be light, and there was light.
Let my People go that they may serve me; thereby good may come
unto thee and to thy children's children. Slave-holder have you
seriously thought upon the condition yourselves, family and
slaves; have you read where Christ has enjoined upon all his
creatures to read his word, thereby that they may have no excuse
when coming before his judgment seat? But you say he shall not
read his word, consequently his sin will be upon your head. I
think every man has as much as he can do to answer for his own
sins. And now my dear-slave-holder, who with you are bound and
fast hastening to judgment? As one that loves your soul repent
ye, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted
out when the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of
the Lord.
In the language of the poet:
Stop, poor sinner, stop and think,
Before you further go;
Think upon the brink of death
Of everlasting woe.
Say, have you an arm like God,
That you his will oppose?
Fear you not that iron rod
With which he breaks his foes?
Is the prayer of one that loves your souls.