WE COULD CONVERT THE SOUTH TO THE PRACTICAL ADOPTION OF OUR SENTIMENTS BY ENLIGHTENING HER CONSCIENCE. This is the principal ground of our confidence. If Slavery is sinful, we can prove it to be such; and this proof, made plain to the understanding of the South, cannot fail to awaken her conscience. Such is human nature. Some would have us think that none but christians have consciences, and therefore the first step to be taken for the removal of Slavery is to send missionaries to convert the masters to christianity, thus laying a foundation for successful appeals to the conscience. But it seems to us the work of centuries, if not an impracticable work, to convert the masters, or a majority of them, to true holiness, while Slavery lasts, _especially if they have no consciences_; and we think also, if all were converted to such a christianity as consists with a hearty belief that _Slavery is not condemned by the Bible_, it would not much facilitate our enterprise. Nor have we so much contempt for that word, which is mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds, as to doubt that _our doctrines_ will commend themselves to the _reason_ of our southern brethren, and receive a fruitful response from their _consciences_. Some would have the world believe, if every person in the free states were an Abolitionist, it would not hasten the emancipation of the slaves; for, say they, we could not then get a hearing at the south, and if we could, she is too much exasperated at our interference to do any thing on the subject. In our opinion, they are entirely mistaken. We believe _we can get a hearing at the South, or convey a knowledge of our sentiments to the southern mind, and that these sentiments are more potent than her prejudices and passions_. In proof of it—