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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 wasn't
a single abolutionist in the [?] 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 and
of enormous guilt -- its persecution of the free
Black. It's efforts to gag discussion and muzzle the
Press. Its denunciations against emancipation in
are all that makes it what it is. what has
NOT FINISHED
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