They go on
to say that the system is one so inherently abominable that, unless
slaveholders shall rouse themselves and abolish the principle of
chattel ownership, they can no longer sustain themselves under the
contempt and indignation of the whole civilized world. What are the
slaveholders to do when this is the best their friends and supporters
can say for them?
I regret to say that the movements of Christian denominations on this
subject are yet greatly behind what they should be. Some movements
have been made by religious bodies, of which I will not now speak; but
as a general thing the professed Christian church is pushed up to its
duty by the world, rather than the world urged on by the church.
The colored people in this country are rapidly rising in every
respect. I shall request Frederick Douglass to send you the printed
account of the recent colored convention. It would do credit to any
set of men whatever, and I hope you will get some notice taken of it
in the papers of the United Kingdom. It is time that the slanders
against this unhappy race should be refuted, and it should he seen
how, in spite of every social and political oppression, they are
rising in the scale of humanity. In my opinion they advance quite as
fast as any of the foreign races which have found an asylum among us.
May God so guide us in all things that our good he not evil spoken of,
and that we be left to defend nothing which is opposed to his glory
and the good of man!
Yours in all sympathy,
H.
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