The North Star (Rochester)/1847/12/03/Notice of the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society

☞ Read and attend to the notice of the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society.

Let the Meeting be a general rally of the anti-slavery friends throughout Western New York.

Now, while Slavery is gathering her tens of thousands, to fight a base and fiend-like war; while the treasure of the professed freemen of the north is pouring out by millions, to give vigor to the bloody struggle; while the voice is going forth from pulpit and press, that "our country, right or wrong, must be supported;" while the press is teeming with praises of the leaders of Slavery's legions, who are now pursuing a career of robbery and wrong in Mexico; while the Mexican can truly say,—

Hearken! up the Rio Bravo comes the negro-catcher's shout;
Listen! 'tis the Yankee's hammer forging human fetters out;—

it is indeed a time when the friends of freedom should come together, filled with zeal for the holy cause, and raise a voice of warning and rebuke.

The corrupt political parties are shaking and trembling before the anti-slavery agitation; the time-serving church, with not enough of inherent virtue to be first pure and then peaceable, is vainly seeking for peace which it can never gain in its false and miserable position. If we will but persevere to the end, victory is ours. Let us then gather by thousands, not to build up a political party or nominate candidates for political office, but to stir up each other's minds to remembrance of the captive,—to listen to the voices of the true-hearted, and to arm ourselves anew from Heaven's own armory with the weapons of Truth and Love.—S.