Children as Abolitionists

Calls attention to an appeal from the “Youth’s Cabinet”, and refers to Bro. Southard’s excellent paper.  The appeal is evidently from that paper.

“Keep the Children Abolitionists.  They naturally detest slavery, and have no fears that it is unsafe to do right, and treat men kindly. Yet many of them scarcely learn to speak before they are taught to despise a colored man, and call him ‘nigger’.  They are soon reconciled to the slavery of those whom they have learnt to despise… Are you doing all that you can to exert a counteracting influence!  The Youth’s Cabinet is the only juvenile periodical designed to educate the young to be THE LIBERATORS OF THE SLAVE……”

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