The Liberator

THE RIGHT SPIRIT. The Philanthropist, in an editorial notice of the late anniversary of the Ohio A. S. Society, speaks of the union and harmony of feeling which prevailed among the members in the following terms:

Party politics and sectarian considerations had nothing to do with the meeting. We do not believe that they disturbed the meditations of a single member.—Although some of us are orthodox, some heterodox, some infidels, some loco-focos, some Democrats, some Whigs, we are very sure that at our convention, we all felt, simply as abolitionists. We knew our point of unity, and all other points were for a time forgotten. If the Presbyterian wished to introduce a resolution, calling on churches to forbid the admission of slaveholders to their communion table, the Friend would not object to it, on the ground that outward ordinances are carnal and not obligatory. On the contrary, he was quite willing that men of other sects should be called on to act consistently with their own principles. Neither would the disbeliever in the lawfulness of human governments, oppose a resolution urging abolitionists to exercise their right of suffrage in obedience to their anti-slavery principles; for he saw that it was necessary that those who believed in the right and duty of voting, should vote in accordance with the sacred principles of civil liberty and fundamental morality.