Excerpt from Address to the Friends of Liberty Thanks to an overruling Providence, the. Great body of the people of the free states are beginning to see that their rights and their libertiesare in jeopardy, and bands of pat riotic and, resolute men are standing aloof from their po litical parties, vowing eternal hostility to the extension of slavery. -we see in these auspicious events, that the A1.mighty has been pleased to bless the instrumentality of those Whoearly' sounded the-alarm, who have steadfastly advo cated the Cause of the Oppressed, who have'warned their countrymen of the encroachinents of the slaveocracy, who have expended then prope1ty and hazarded thorr lives in defence of the rights of man, and the freedom inherited fr om their fathers. Had they falter ed, had they prayed less, had they used less moral suasion, had they acted inconsis tently at the ballot-box, the nation and sympathizing Europe might not have witnessed the revolution now in progress for the deliverance of our country from galling servitude to the slave aristocrats who have so long trampled upon their countrymen in chains, and been permitted for so many years to administer the affairs of this government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.