When assailed and threatened for not expressing his opinion upon some subject, he answered:--

      "May I be permitted to say that my heart is a stranger to the fear of losing any man's patronage under the clouds, or of any man's tongue or pen, while I plead the cause that my conscience or my judgment most approves? I have spoken freely and borne my testimony against all these evils in detail, but I do not devote my pages to any one of them exclusively--and still less to any one of them politically. There is not one of my regular readers who does not know my views on all these questions, so far as morality or religion is concerned."

[A. C.]      
Vol. 1836, page 282.      

Source:

Alexander Campbell. Extract from "Abolitionism." The Millennial Harbinger 7 (June 1836): 282.

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