Here is the letter.

May it never see the light; people are much more influenced by such things than by mere logic, and oh, what would befall the nation should our Northern excitement against slavery cease, and should we leave the whole subject to the South and to God! "What if people should come to believe that the Southerners--fifteen or sixteen States of this Union--are as humane, Christian, and conscientious as the North! Who will resolve my painful doubts?
I do crave to know what possible motive this lady could have had in taking so much thought and care about the last resting-place of this poor little black "chattel." You and your husband, dear lady, seem to be as kind and painstaking as though you knew that a fellow-creature of yours was returning, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust." One great Northern "friend of the slave" tells us that the slaves at the South are degraded so to the level of brutes, that baptizing them and admitting them to Christian ordinances is about the same as though he should say to his dogs, "I baptize thee, Bose, in," etc.

This, he tells us, he repeated many times here, and in England.[1] Nothing but love of truth and just hatred of "the sum of all villanies" could, of course, have made him venture so near the verge of unpardonable blasphemy as to speak thus.

Yet your feelings and behavior toward this babe are in direct conflict with his theory.

Pray whom am I to believe?
[Footnote 1: See "Sigma's" communications to the _Boston Transcript_, August, 1857.] Perhaps now I have hit upon a solution.