difference of opinion related to the means by which that end was to be accomplished. The Abolitionists, so called, maintained that all slave-holding, as inconsistent with the inalienable rights of man and with the law of love, is sinful; and, therefore, that immediate and universal emancipation was an imperative duty. Another necessary consequence of the assumption that ‘slave-holding is a heinous crime against God and man,’ is that no slave-holder could properly be admitted to Christian fellowship.