The American Anti-Slavery Society is endangering the peace and union of the Churches in the United States

The American Anti-Slavery Society is endangering the peace and union of the Churches in the United States by making a participation in the excess, practically, if not in form, a term of communion. Indeed there seems no interest of primary importance in our country, political or religious, which is not put in jeopardy by the honest men who are embarked in this benevolent but unwise and disastrous enterprise, as it is now conducted.
~ Roger Sherman (June 26, 1838)