Excerpt from A Comparative View of the Existing Tariff of Duties: On Goods Imported From Foreign Countries Various other religious bodies have in a similar manner, dur ing the year, published their testimony against slavery. During the past year, many strong indications have been given, that the desire to abolish slavery is becoming more active and extensive in the 'western slave states. A few of them will be mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.