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Des Moines County, Iowa Anti-Slavery Society minutes and declarations, 1844-1845
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Theri measures were physical resistance the marshalling of arms [-] the hostile array [-] the mortal encou[nter] Ours shall be such only as the opposition of moral purity to moral corruption [-] the destruction of error by the potency of truth [-] the overthrow of prejudice by the power of love and the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance Their grevances great as they evere were trifling in comparison with the wrongs and sufferings of those for whom we plead Our fathers were never slaves [-] never bought and sold like cattle never shut out from the light of knowledge and religion never subjected to the lash of brutal task masters But those for whose emancipation we are striving constituting at the present time at hand one sixth part of our countrymen are recognized by the law and treated their fellow beings as marketable commodities as goods chattles as brute beasts are plundered daily of the fruits of their toil evi[????] redress realy enjoying no constitutional or legal protection from licentous [&] murderous outrages upon their persons are ruthlessly torn assunder the tender babe from the arms of its frantic mothers
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Theri measures were physical resistance the marshalling of arms [-] the hostile array [-] the mortal encou[nter] Ours shall be such only as the opposition of moral purity to moral corruption [-] the destruction of error by the potency of truth [-] the overthrow of prejudice by the power of love and the abolition of slavery by the spirit of repentance Their grevances great as they evere were trifling in comparison with the wrongs and sufferings of those for whom we plead Our fathers were never slaves [-] never bought and sold like cattle never shut out from the light of knowledge and religion never subjected to the lash of brutal task masters But those for whose emancipation we are striving constituting at the present time at hand one sixth part of our countrymen are recognized by the law and treated their fellow beings as marketable commodities as goods chattles as brute beasts are plundered daily of the fruits of their toil evi[????] redress realy enjoying no constitutional or legal protection from licentous [&] murderous outrages upon their persons are ruthlessly torn assunder the tender babe from the arms of its frantic mothers
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