An Appeal for Abolition
By Anson Byington
BRO. SMITH : I have taken the Review some six or seven years and have been much edified with its contents. Having been engaged for the last twenty-five years in the antislavery cause, I have regarded the Review as an auxiliary until the last two or three years, in which it has failed to aid the cause of Abolition. And as I want my money for Abolition purposes, I must discontinue the paper when the three dollars herein enclosed are expended. I dare not tell the slave that he can afford to be contented in his bondage until the Saviour comes. however near we may believe his coming. Surely the editor of the Review could not afford to go without his breakfast till then. If it was our duty to remember those in bonds as bound with them eighteen hundred years ago, it must be our duty still. "When saw we thee hungry or athirst, sick or in prison, and did not minister unto thee." Alas! we saw the slave in prison, but on reading the prophecy that there will be bondmen as well as freemen at Christ's coming, we have excused ourselves from any efforts for his emancipation. I have endeavored to keep the seventh day as the Sabbath according to the fourth commandment since Jan. 1st, 1858. Yours for truth and righteousness,
ANSON BYINGTON.
Nicholville, N. Y.