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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
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