NOUNCERSITY THE LEGION OF LIBERTY! AND FORCE OF TRUTH, CONTAINING THE THOUGHTS, WORDS, AND DEEDS, OF SOME PROMINENT DIVINITY Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY 138 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. 1857. THE IMAGE AND SUPERSCRIPTION. ADVERTISEMENT. Sine Libertate nihil bonum est, nihil expetendum hominibus.-PLUTARCEL THIS Legion of Liberty is a continuation of the pamphlets "Liberty," published within the last five years, which should have been generally distributed. "Liberty" comprised authorities for the most part prior to the organization of the "Abolitionists." While by the common law of Nature we should be free as our original elements, and by the written law of our constitutions and statutes, we boast as our birth-right, of freedom, civil and religious, freedom of speech and of the press; still on this really practical and vitally important subject, which mainly regulates our legisla tion and morals, our political economy and national (want of,). prosperity and influence; the total enslavement of nearly three millions of our fellow human beings, the wretched victims of tyranny on their own native soil; here we stand convicted to our consciences and to the world, as the abject slaves of slavery. The pulpit is muzzled, it cannot speak; the press is fettered, it cannot move; the right arm of the law is manacled, it cannot stretch forth to maintain its own authority and supremacy. The defence of Liberty, "that holy principle, whose name is on every lip, on every coin, on every badge of the land," excites persecution in the church, proscription in the state, and infamy and outlawry in the social and domestic relations; and for all these outrages perpetrated in a land governed by public opinion, the signal cry is "AntiSlavery! Abolition !" alias Freedom! Justice! The severe pecuniary distress and general bankruptcy, has at last convinced all classes that the credit system implies corresponding debt; the day of reckoning foreseen by men of sound views has (3) |