To The Clergy of New England

Boston: 1854. Quarto, bifolium with [2] pp of printed text. A rare petition circulated among the clergy of New England, in opposition to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act created the states of Kansas and Nebraska, while ending the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had banned Slavery in that region. The petition is signed in type by four Abolitionist clergymen of Boston: Charles Lowell, Lyman Beecher, Baron Stow, and Sebastian Streeter. The first page urges the recipient to sign the appended statement in order to "avert the impending evil." The second page is the statement itself, with which "The undersigned--Clergymen of different religious denominations in new England...do solemnly protest against the passage of what is known as the 'Nebraska Bill', or any repeal, or modification of existing legal prohibitions of Slavery in that part of our National domain...We protest it as a great moral wrong, as a breach of faith eminently injurious to the moral principles of the community..." Below the statement is a line where the recipient was to sign, left blank in our copy. Six in OCLC. In very good condition with folding creases and some other minor creasing. Item #15846

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