Principles, Not Men. The doctrines of the immediateists are founded upon eternal truth. The carrying out of these principles is emancipating all the slaves of the West Indies. Similar causes must produce like effects elsewhere. These principles will be universally adopted. Take hold, then, you who do not wish to be found by Satan when he comes for the hindmost. Now is the time. Procrastinate much longer, and you are gone. Abolitionists have not professed angelic perfection. It is not us you are requested to adopt, but our principles. ‘Be wise today, ‘tis madness to defer.’
(Liberator, July 20, 1838, pg 2)
