1848 Political Duties of Christians, Slave Power of the South Rules Everyone

Committee of the South Middlesex Conference. The Political Duties of Christians: A Report, adopted at the Spring Meeting of the South Middlesex Conference of Churches, April 18, 1848. Boston: Printed by Andrews & Prentiss, 1848. First Edition. [10717] Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 40 clean pp., faint vertical fold at center. Good. Pamphlet. "In view of the political subserviency of Christians to party and mere political demagogues, as especially evinced in the history of the Mexican War" this Conference of Congregational Churches appointed a committee to study and report on any measures "that seem to be advisable, to enable Christians to regain their appropriate influence as citizens." The committee reports that the government of the United States is practically Infidel, that slavery is the great wrong, that citizens of the country are losing their rights, including trial by jury in the case of the suspected runaway, "be he black or white." It reports the the Louisiana