THEODORE PARKER,

MINISTER OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY IN BOSTON.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
THEODORE PARKER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

WHICH HAVING ONCE IN ENGLAND ITS KELYNG, ITS SAUNDERS, ITS JEFFREYS, AND ITS
SCROGGS, AS NOW IN AMERICA ITS SHARKEY, ITS GRIER, ITS CURTIS, AND ITS

KANE, HAS YET ALSO SUCH GENEROUS ADVOCATES OF HUMANITY

AS EQUAL THE GLORIES OF HOLT AND ERSKINE, OF

MACKINTOSH AND ROMILLY,

FOR THEIR ELOQUENT AND FEARLESS DEFENCE OF TRUTH, RIGHT, AND LOVE,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED,

BY THEIR CLIENT AND FRIEND,

THEODORE PARKER.

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