Fellow countrymen! we wish, we recommend no action whatever, inconsistent with the laws and constitutions of our country, or the precepts of our common religion, but we beseech you to join with us in resolving, that while we will respect the rights of others, we will at every hazard maintain our own.

In behalf of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

ARTHUR TAPPAN, \

WM. JAY, \

JNO.  RANKIN, \

LEWIS TAPPAN, \

S.S.  JOCELYN, \

S.E.  CORNISH, | Executive Committee.

JOSHUA LEAVITT, /

ABRAHAM L. COX, /

AMOS A. PHELPS, /

LA ROY SUNDERLAND, /

THEO.  S. WRIGHT, /

ELIZUR WRIGHT, JR. /

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Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, corner of Spruce and
Nassau Streets.

THE ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER.

VOL.  I. SEPTEMBER 1836.  No. 2.

APPEAL

TO THE

CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF THE SOUTH,

BY A.E.  GRIMKE.

“Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not within thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house more than all the Jews.  For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place:  but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed:  and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this.  And Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer:—­and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and if I perish, I perish.” Esther IV. 13-16.

RESPECTED FRIENDS,

It is because I feel a deep and tender interest in your present and eternal welfare that I am willing thus publicly to address you.  Some of you have loved me as a relative, and some have felt bound to me in Christian sympathy, and Gospel fellowship; and even when compelled by a strong sense of duty, to break those outward bonds of union which bound us together as members of the same community, and members of the same religious denomination, you were generous enough to give me credit, for sincerity as a Christian, though you believed I had been most strangely deceived.  I thanked you then for your kindness, and I ask you now, for the sake of former confidence, and former friendship, to read the following pages in the spirit of calm investigation and fervent prayer.  It is because you have known me, that I write thus unto you.