BY NATHANIEL S. PRIME,
Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, in Cambridge, N. Y.
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SALEM, N. Y.
PRINTED BY DODD AND STEVENSON.
1825.
TO THE READER.
Though no apology for the present publication, or for the form in which it appears, will be attempted, yet it may not be improper or uninteresting to state a few facts relating to its origin.
The author has been in the habit, for a number of years past, of celebrating the anniversary of our Independence with public worship in his own congregation. Previous to the last 4th of July, notice to that effect was given, and at the same time it was stated that the subject of discourse would be—not American Liberty, but—American Slavery: in connexion with which, the object and operations of “The American Colonization Society” would be brought into view, and its claims upon publick patronage defended and urged. A similar notice was sent to the other congregations in this place with an invitation to attend.