The Legion of And Force of Truth, Containing the Thoughts, Words, and Deeds, of Some (Classic Reprint)

Surl Otlu Kil i Muin al, iu AlI apiftilivin A omin Aut. PlduKK Thi Legion of Liberty is cantino Btioii of Ompimp Uak Llbetiy, publigheil wilhia thelaat five ymn, wbich ihoaldlian beent n! lljr Jislribuled. Liberty compriieil oth Milit llr the mon part prior (o I he orpmization of the A boliliooifl (hit secoiul division contain! tnore of those who ere laehniiy wt called; it ihould be reul in connection with the other, wilha Mwhich it is incomplete. It will be fonati to inclmle nearly evtrf varlr yof the hranrhc Bof iti proli Bctheme; and of views, reatoatng, bda, ityid, c. Theie brief ettracta are principally UiMB (rom (he A nti-S lavery periodical! ami publications, of which Omj lve a freneral glimpse, and to which those wllliog to pnweente Oh ibjecl an raferted. While by the common law of Nattire we should be free as av original elemenll, and by the written law of our oonilitutioni nri i Btnlee, weboait aaour birth-right, of freedom, civil and rcligiovi, freedom of apeeeh and of the preu; s Ulon thii really praotied anil vitally important sabject, which mainly regnlatei our Jcgiatetioa and morals, our political economy and national (want o) proaperily and influence; tbe tola!enslavement o(nearly threemttlions of Mil fellow human beings, the wretched victims of tyranny on their own native soil; here wa BU od convicteit to our coasciencea and to the world, as the abject ilavee of slavery. Tta palpit i muziled, it cannot spealc; the prei ii fetlereil, it cannat move; the right arm of the law tmanacleil. It cannot Mrelch forth to maintain its own authority and nprenucy. The defence of Libel, that holy principle, wboae name ii on every lip, on every coin, on every badge of the land, excites persecnlion in 0b church, proscription in the state, and infamy and ou Qawry in tk social and ilomestio relations; and for all these outrages perpetialed In a land governed b
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