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730 THE UNDERGROUND SAIL ROAD.
tiously, deposit a vote for each men M will do what they can to carry out thorn principles which we have »o much at heart *»»#»#
" Come, then, men of Pennsylvania, come and join ue in this good work. Join us, to age each moral means aa to ox 'act public sentiment throughout the region where slavery exists, and to impress upon the people of the Free states a manly sens* of their own righto. Join us, to place "just men "in all our public offices; men whose example a whole people may safely imitate. Join us to free our General Government from the ignominious reproach of slavery; to restore to our country those principles which our fathers so labored to establish; and to hand these principles down afresh to successive generations. It is the cause of truth, of humanity, and of Ood, to which we invite your aid. It is a cause of which you never need be ashamed. Living, you may be thankful, and dying, you may be thankful, for having labored in it. We have, as co-laborers with us, the noblest allies that man can wish. Within, we have the deepest convictions of conscience, the clearest deductions of reason ; and, all over the world, wherever man ia found, the first, the most ardent longings of the human soul. Without, we have the happiness of nearly three millions of the human race; the honor, as well an the beat interesta of our whole fountry; and the universal consent of all good men whose moral vision is not obscured by the mist of a low, misguided selfishness : while we seem to hear, aa it were, the voices of the great and the good, the patriot and the philanthropist, of a past generation, calling to us and cheering us on. But, above all these, and beyond all these, wo have with us the higheat attributes of |