“Blessed is he that considereth the poor.”
“Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and the needy; rid him out of the hand of the wicked.”
“Open thy mouth for the dumb, plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”
“First, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.”
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
“All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”
Again:—
“For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.”
“The Lord looseth the prisoners; the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down; the Lord preserveth the strangers.”
“He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, to set at liberty them that are bruised."’
“For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.”
Again:—
“The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.”
“Rob not the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; for the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.”
“And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.”
“Wo unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbor’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work.”
Fairs, for the sale of articles fabricated by the hands of female abolitionists, and recommended by such pictures and sentences as those quoted above, are held in many of our cities and large towns. Crowds frequent them to purchase; hundreds of dollars are thus realized, to be appropriated to the anti-slavery cause; and, from the cheap rate at which the articles are sold, vast numbers of them are scattered far and wide over the country. Besides these, if we except various drawings or pictures on paper, (samples of which were put up in the packages you ordered a few days ago,) such as the Slave-market in the District of Columbia, with Members of congress attending it—views of slavery in the South—a Lynch court in the slave-states—the scourging of Mr. Dresser by a vigilance committee in the public square of Nashville—the plundering of the post-office in Charleston, S.C., and the conflagration of part of its contents, &c, &c, I am apprised of no other means of propagating our doctrines than by oral and written discussions.
“13. Are your hopes and expectations of success increased or lessened by the events of the last year, and especially by the action of this Congress? And will your exertions be relaxed or increased?”