Announcement of Lydia Maria Child’s Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

“A thousand thanks to Mrs. Child for this admirable work!  It must — it will be exclusively read; and that heart must be harder than the nether mill stone, which can remain unaffected by the solemn truths which in contains.   We trust in God, that it will kindle a flame of sympathy on behalf of the people of color, which will not be extinquished until the system of slavery is utterly consumed, and the rights of the oppressed are restored.”