In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it however a greater evil to the white than to the black race, & while my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more strong for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race and I hope will prepare and lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known and ordered by a wise Merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild and melting influence of Christianity than the storms and tempests of fiery Controversy. This influence though slow, is sure. The doctrines and miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to Convert but a small part of the human race and even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist! While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward and we give it the aid of our prayers and all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences and with whom tow thousand years are but as a single day. Although the Abolitionist must know this and must see that he has neither the right or power of operating except by moral means and suasion and if he means well to the slave, he must not create angry feeling in the Master; that although he may not approve the mode by which it pleases Providence to accomplish its purposes, the result will nevertheless be the same; that the reasons he gives for interference in what he has no concern, holds good for every kind of interference with our neighbours when we disapprove their conduct; still I fear he will persevere in his evil course. Is it not strange that the descendants of those pilgrim fathers who crossed the Altantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?