Excerpt from Correspondence Between John Jay, Esq., And the Vestry of St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, N. YSo, too, with Slavery. Had the Church obeyed the ih junction to remember them that are in bonds, or bound with them, and boldly stood between the living and the dead, to stay the plague that troubles us, ' what a reward might have been here! In the vain hope of preserving with Southern Slaveholders a worthless harmony, she has preserved silence on the nearest and worst of crimes - forgetting, in the words of Coleridge, that the guilt of excusing a wicked action is only second to that of committing it, and now the Northern Church finds its fellowship spurned and itself despised, and the Slave power strengthened by the support of Northern Christians, while feeding on the oppression of the blacks, is at last engaged in a struggle for life and death with its late eulogists, apologists and defenders, for whom it exhibits the bitterest hatred and the most profound contempt.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.