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you, at whatever sacrifice, if the State of
your health does not imperiously forbid,
and not only come yourself, but bring with
you some of your dear family as well as other
true and choice spirits. Great anxiety is
felt here on the subject, lest the hardness
of the times should keep so many of our
friends at home as to give an easy victory
to the wrong side. I am sure, dear brother,
that your heart will say with mine, this
must not, it shall not be, if any sacrifice
which I can make can prevent it. It is my
sober conviction, that, if the journey should
make it inpracticable for you to give a single
cent to the cause, in any other way, for a whole year to
come, you had better go by all means,
and this is the feeling which prevails
among all our well-informed and sa-
gacious friends in this quarter. It is of
the utmost importance that Massachusetts
should not be kept to fight the battle alone,
thus giving the enemy occasion to say that
it is a merely local controversy, in which
the mass of abolitionists in other states
feel little or no interest. No stone will be
left unturned to induce the clergy and their
blinded followers in Vermont to rally at the
meeting; and hence it is doubly im-