[19] See Methodist Discipline.
[20] Annual Report of American and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
[21] Distinguished from the Moravians, or old United Brethren by the additional phrase—“in Christ.”
[22] Methodist Quarterly.
[23] Hon. Charles Sumner’s speech on the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, delivered in the Senate, August 1852, is one of the finest specimens of eloquence in the English language. Its arguments too, are unanswerable.
[24] The following estimate of their numbers and localities is taken from one of the able reports of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, carefully drawn up by its former Secretary, John Scoble, Esq.:
| United States, | 3,650,000 |
| Brazil, | 4,050,000 |
| Spanish Colonies, | 1,470,000 |
| S. Amer. Republics, | 1,130,000 |
| British Colonies, | 750,000 |
| Hayti, | 850,000 |
| French Colonies, | 270,000 |
| Dutch Colonies, | 50,000 |
| Danish Colonies, | 45,000 |
| Mexico, | 70,000 |
| Canada, | 35,000 |
| Total, | 12,370,000 |
Rep. Am. and For. Anti. Slav. Society.
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