tance.

Our trust for victory is solely in GOD. We may be personally
defeated, but our principles never. Truth, Justice, Reason,
Humanity, must and will gloriously triumph. Already a host is
coming up to the help of the Lord against the mighty, and the
prospect before us is full of encouragement.

Submitting this declaration to the candid examination of the
people of this country, and of the friends of liberty
throughout the world, we hereby affix our signatures to it;
pledging ourselves that, under the guidance and by the help
of Almighty God, we will do all that in us lies, consistently
with this Declaration of our principles, to overthrow the
most execrable system of slavery that has ever been witnessed
upon earth; to deliver our land from its deadliest curse; to
wipe out the foulest stain which rests upon our national
escutcheon; and to secure to the colored population of the
United States all the rights and privileges which belong to
them as men and as Americans--come what may to our persons,
our interests, or our reputations--whether we live to witness
the triumph of Liberty, Justice, and Humanity, or perish
untimely as martyrs in this great, benevolent and holy cause.

_Signed in the Adelphi Hall, in the City of Philadelphia,
on the 6th day of December, A. D. 1833._

True to the pledges given in this declaration, the abolitionists had
printed, preached, and prayed without ceasing. As a proof of what they
were doing in one department of their work, he would exhibit a number
of newspapers, tracts, pamphlets, and other periodicals, which were in
circulation throughout the country. Mr. Thompson then produced copies
of the "Slaves Friend," "Anti-Slavery Records," "Anti-Slavery
Anecdotes," "Human Rights," "Emancipator," "Liberator," "New-York
Evangelist," "Zion's Herald," "Zion's Watchman," "Philadelphia
Independent Weekly Press," "Herald of Freedom," "Lynn Record," "New
England Spectator," &c., and an "Anti-Slavery Quarterly," edited by
Professor Wright, the Secretary of the National Society, and
distinguished by considerable literary talent. These were amongst the
means pursued by the Abolitionists. They were peaceful and honorable
means, and under God, would prove effectual to bring the
blood-cemented fabric of Slavery to the ground. Other than moral and
constitutional means, the abolitionists sought not to employ. Their