A Letter to the Committee Chosen by the American Tract Society
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Excerpt from A Letter to the Committee Chosen by the American Tract Society: To Inquire Into the Proceedings of Its Executive Committee, in Relation to Slavery Gentlemen: A responsibility, no less undesired than unexpected, has been thrown upon you. The discharge of this responsibility will either smooth or ruffle your dying pillow; it will accompany you through the dark valley, and bear witness for or against you before the judgment sent. The weight of this responsibility consists in the influence your action will exert in weakening or strengthening the fidelity and courage of the American Church. This influence will spring solely from the weight of your personal characters, and the high position you occupy in the confidence of the religious community. Your functions as a committee are not those of a jury, for there is no issue of fact to be tried. The acts of the Executive Committee which have given offence, and which have led to your appointment, far from being denied, are admitted and justified. Nor are your functions those of a court, invested with authority to decide and settle controverted rights. Whatever may be your report, it cannot control, however it may influence, the future action of the Society or the opinion of the public. As a Committee of Inquiry, your province is to collect the arguments urged for and against the action of the Executive Committee, and to express your opinion of their relative weight. Hence each party has an undoubted right to present to you their own view of the case, and thus to aid you in acquiring a full and accurate knowledge of the merits of the controversy. As already observed, you cannot authoritatively decide that controversy; and from your opinion of its merits, whatever it may be, an appeal will certainly be made to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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