Excerpt from American Society for Promoting National Unity
Teachings of this sort, especially as related to ab olitionism, have been extending and gaining favor among us for many years. They have been seldom rebuked, because deemed feeble and harmless. But they have increased by indulgence. They have been disseminated in books and pamphlets, taught in our schools, reiterated in the daily and weekly issues of the press, listened to and applauded in popular lec tures they have often entered the pulpit, and made the dogmas of human rights and liberties take precedence of repentance and faith as the staple of Gospel ministra tions. They have been wrought into the fascinations of poetry they have been set to music and have furnished the entertainment of itinerating minstrelsies and musical concerts; they have floated wildly on the breezes of heaven, and been made to sigh in sentimental strains around the evening hearth-stone. They have thus made stirring appeals to human passions, have perverted truth and disguised facts, have falsely wrought with the sym pathics of the weak, the consciences of the unenlight ened, the arrogance of the vain. They have made their subjects slow to obey and quick to rebel, stubborn and contentious for rights, but remiss in duties and sacrifices for the general welfare.
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