Excerpt from The Despotism of Freedom: A Speech at the First Anniversary of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, January 1, 1834

This pamphlet is the first number of a series of publications, entitled the Abolitionist's Library. We shall continue the series as fast as our means will allow. We would respectfully invite the friends of universal freedom, to aid in this attempt to diffuse truth on this important and hitherto neglected subject. We shall aim to set the plain and simple truth fairly before the public. In doing this, we shall take care to give no offence to any who are willing to have the mask torn off from this foul blot on our national character. If any error shall find its way into any of our publications, we call upon all men, whether friends or foes, to point it out, and it shall be corrected. While the people of the old world are going on so nobly in the work of reform, it becomes the republicans of America to awake from their slumber, and to inquire if they can do any thing in so noble a work. While our government professes to stand on the basis that "all men are born free and equal, " we are excluding two millions of Americans, not only from the privileges of freemen, but from the rights of men. We shall never cease our opposition to this system, till this glaring absurdity and humiliating disgrace shall have passed away, and the natural rights of every inhabitant of this land shall be acknowledged and held sacred.

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