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My dear Brother

I received your letter a week

ago -- the decision which it called upon me

to make involved too much responsibility to admit

of an immediate answer. I have pondered

and prayed over it and have come to the

consclusion that I can promote the great cause

more by staying here than by any other course.

When I came here last summer there was not

a single abolutionist in the [Seminary?] nor in

the immediate region. From the first I have

declared my sentiments in full rebuking the spirit

of slavery in all its forms of expediency, avarice,

cowardice, pride, prejudice, [proscription ?], brutality and

lust. I have rebuked the spirit of Colonization--

its duplicity -- its flattery of sinners, its [...istism?] and

[...tism?] of enormous guilt -- its persecution of the free

Black. It's efforts to gag discussion and muzzle the

Press. Its denunciations against emancipation in [fact?] 

are all that makes it what it is.   Will you ask what has

[Marginalia]

 His influence enegry of character, personal [way?] commanding power as a speaker 

moral courage - knowledge of human nature extensive acquaintance in all parts of 

the country and wholesome [?] in the [?] all [point?] him out as the man of 

all others- appoint him. Put it on his [consciece?] I [?] he [would?] have 

shoulder the responsibity

[sp..rring?] it.  I know he

is doing a great deal 

in New York.  I know 

his business his famiy

etc. and in [?] of 

the whole I say

Put it on his [?]

[?] most 

truly your brother

J D Weld