November 18, 1835 — Third Annual Meeting, Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Home of Francis Jackson, Hollis Street, Boston MA

I have been requested by a friend present to say something — if only a word — to express my sympathy in the objects of this meeting. I had supposed that my presence here would be understood as showing my sympathy with you. But as I am requested to speak, I will say what I have said through the whole South, in every family where I have been; that I consider Slavery as inconsistent with the law of God, and as incompatible with the course of his Providence.

I should certainly say no less at the North than at the South concerning this utter abomination and I now declare that in your principles I fully agree.

Source: Right and Wrong in Boston in 1836, Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society; Being a Concise History of the Cases of the Slave Child, Med, and of the Women Demanded as Slaves of the Supreme Judicial Court of Mass., with All the Other Proceedings of the Society, (Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1836), p. 94.