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We have pourtrayed with studied moderation the dark regions of woe. We have laid before you with careful ex-plicitness the scheme or remedy. We have endeavoured to anticipate and answer all objections. And now it is for you to make this great enterprise possible by uniting to subscribe the sum we ask for, as necessary to float the scheme.
We have built our deliverance ship in the dockyard of loving design, we have wrought her plates, riveted her bolts, fixed her masts, put in her boilers and engines, fitted her and supplied her with gear. It is your privilege to launch her—to draw the silver bolt and permit her to leave the stocks and glide down into the dark deep sea of misery and land on heavenly shores the drowning submerged millions.
We believe that your response will be worthy of you. Coming generations will ttank you, and the blessings of them that were ready to perish will rest upon you, and the GS-od of the fatherless and the widow will remember you for good.