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take to remove them, and give me bond and security that their condition shall be improved? If so, let him speak; and I will then make a proposition which shall, at once, and by a test more sure than all the writing in the world, determine who is the friend of the slave, and who is willing to make sacrifices for his good, and how many abolition Acaciuses and Paulinuses are ready to be forthcoming with church plate for the crucible, and even a moiety of their estates "for the redemption of captives.

In conclusion, let me again submit to you, whether the broad assertion that slaveholding is a sin, must not be modified. Slavery may be a sin; and may be rendered so by the manner in which the present master obtained his power, or by the abuse of that power, or by the means employed to perpetuate that power. But supposing there is no sin (as there is manifestly none) in being the heir or legatee of this power, then the use of it may be most virtuous; as in the bequests mentioned in my third letter; and in all cases where slaves are unprepared for liberty, and the master's authority is exercised for their truest benefit, temporal and eternal.

I have done; and mine has been an irksome and cheerless task. You have had the popular side of the question, and the Reflector has accompanied your letters with accounts of the enthusiasm produced by them at the North. May you ever be animated in your pious labors by multitudes who love and admire you,-among whom I shall always be found, when conscience permits it. For me, I have long been schooled to say, "My soul,

wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him." I expect no enthusiasm from the North, and little even from the South. I ask only the calm and honest reflection of wise and good men for truth, which may not be welcome, but is truth for all that. Easily could I have composed papers which would have been copied and applauded here, but truth forbade it. Nor can I approve of the fanaticism of the South, any more than that of the North, on the subject which has been before us. I only wish, in fact, that,-instead of employing my humble efforts in refuting an untenable, and mischievous, and monstrous dogma,-I had been occupied in the more congenial work of attempting to excite masters to a sense of their fearful responsibility, and to the discharge of their solemn duties.

Farewell! grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. That knowledge, we are assured, shall fill this guilty and polluted earth, as the waters cover the face of the deep. And it is with that knowledge, too, as with those waters, when the sea is rolling in. Wave after wave breaks, and is driven back; but the ocean is advancing; and before its majesty and strength, impotent must every barrier prove ;-vainly shall nations rage, and rulers take counsel together, and all the kings of the earth set themselves, saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud billows be stayed.

Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, ac. cording to the power that worketh in us-unto

Him be glory in the church, by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. Dear brother, most affectionately yours, R. FULLER.

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P. S. As it does not belong to this argument, I have said nothing of your remark, that you never could, without doing violence to your conscience, do any thing towards the establishment in a heathen land, of a church into which slavery could by any means find admittance.' When it is considered, however, that you speak this as President of the Convention, and that in India there are millions of slaves, your observation is of vast importance; and the public ought to be informed by the Board at once, whether, in reference to slavery in the East, our missionaries are required to pursue a course different from that which, you admit, was pursued in the Roman Empire, by Christ and the apostles. Upon this point I do respectfully, but earnestly, request, that the highly and universally esteemed gentlemen constituting the Board will not allow ignorance or doubt to perplex the Southern mind for a moment.

R. F.

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DR. WAYLAND'S LETTER.

TO THE REV. RICHARD FULLER, D. D

MY DEAR BROTHER

It is needless to assure you that I have read your letters in reply to mine on Domestic Slavery, with profound attention and unfeigned admiration. To the acuteness of one profession and the learning of another, in both of which you have attained to the highest distinction, you have here added a fervor of eloquence and a richness of illustration peculiarly your own. Never before, I presume, has the defence of slavery on Christian principles been so ably conducted. Never before, I think, has any thing been written so admirably calculated to make a favorable impression on those who hold the opposite opinions. Nor is the singular ability displayed in this discussion by any means its highest recommendation. The warm spirit of philanthropy which pervades every part of your argument, must melt away every prejudice by which it could be resisted; while the love to God and the reverence for his word which are everywhere so apparent, must, I am sure, give you a place in the affections of every true disciple of our common Lord. If slavery cannot be defended by such an

advocate, I shall believe that the defence of it must be hopeless.

Si Pergama dextrâ

Defendi possent, etiam hâc defensa faissent

While, however, I say this, and I say it from my heart, I do not perceive that you have overthrown a single position which I have attempted to establish. It was not, therefore, until quite lately that I resolved to offer any thing by way of rejoinder. As, however, with your usual courtesy, you have intimated a desire that I should close, as you had commenced the correspondence, I shall avail myself of your liberal suggestion. It will not be my intention to present any new argument, or introduce any new matter into the discussion, but rather to state the points of difference and coincidence between us, so that the conclusions at which we have both arrived may be the more clearly presented to the view of those who may perchance take an interest in the correspondence.

Before I proceed, I ask the privilege of offering a few remarks explanatory of two or three passages at which you have properly taken exception.

1. In my second letter I supposed, for the sake of illustration, that I had murdered you and reduced your wife and children to slavery. You think that this passage will lead to the belief that I intend to institute a comparison between the moral condition of those who hold slaves in the Southern States, and those engaged in the slavetrade on the coast of Africa. Should such an opinion be formed, I should sincerely regret it; for, in all truth, I declare that it never entered my mind

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