ABSTRACT
We address you, Fellow Countrymen, deeply impressed with the moral obligations imposed on us by an authority greater than that of princes or rulers, commanding us to 'do unto all men as we would that men should do unto us,' consequently requiring us to lend that aid, which ourselves would derive, to extricate from their condition the millions of our brethren who, by the oppression or neglect of rulers, are plunged in the lowest depths of misery, groping in ignorance, and daily sinking in crime.
