God may have purposed that
the good which has flowed to the African race in this land by its
connection with us, shall be extended to millions more, not by
importation, we may suppose, but by propagation here. I say this to show
that fanatical opposers of slavery may be employed under God as the
instruments of extending slavery to the very limits of habitable land in
the southern parts of our continent. We have tried in vain at the North,
for thirty years, to abolish slavery. It is time either to cease, or to
try some entirely different influences.
But I must close my long letter. When you write again, I have no doubt
that you will have seen some things in a new light. Tell me more about
your studies. I was interested in your way of describing things. I only
wondered that, with your occasional sense of the ludicrous, you should
not have been aware of the impression which you yourself must have made
on others. Burns's "giftie," "to see oursel's," etc., we all, more or
less, need. I told Hattie the other day that I thought some parts of
your letter did you very great credit, but that the monomania of the
North has fallen upon you, and that you have it, as it seemed to me, in
one of its worst forms.
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