I say this to show that fanatical opposers of slavery may be employed under God as the instruments of extending slavery to the very limits of habitable land in the southern parts of our continent.

We have tried in vain at the North, for thirty years, to abolish slavery.

It is time either to cease, or to try some entirely different influences.
But I must close my long letter.

When you write again, I have no doubt that you will have seen some things in a new light.

Tell me more about your studies.