Thy descriptions may suit the prevailing christianity of this age, and the general character of woman; and if so, we have great cause for shame and confusion of face. I feel sorry that thy unkind insinuations against the christian character of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, have rendered it necessary for me to speak of him individually, because what I shall feel bound to say of him may, to some like thyself, appear like flattery; but I must do what justice seems so clearly to call for at my hands. Thou sayest that ‘though he professes a belief in the christian religion, he is an avowed opponent of most of its institutions.’ I presume thou art here alluding to his views of the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s supper, and the Sabbath. Permit me to remind thee, that in _all_ these opinions, he coincides entirely with the Society of Friends, whose views of the Sabbath never were so ably vindicated as by his pen: and the insinuations of hypocrisy which thou hast thrown out against him, may with just as much truth be cast upon _them_. The Quakers think that these are not _christian_ institutions, but thou hast assumed it without any proof at all. Thou sayest farther, ‘The character and spirit of _this man_ have for years been exhibited in the Liberator.’ I have taken that paper for two years, and therefore understand its character, and am compelled to acknowledge, that harsh and severe as is the language often used, I have never seen any expressions which _truth_ did not warrant. The abominations of slavery _cannot_ be otherwise described. I think Dr. Channing exactly portrayed the character of brother Garrison’s writings when he said, ‘That deep feeling of evils, which is _necessary_ to _effectual_ conflict with them, which marks _God’s most powerful messengers to mankind, cannot_ breathe itself in soft and tender accents. The deeply moved soul _will_ speak strongly, and _ought_ to speak strongly, so as to move and shake nations.’ It is well for the slave, and well for this country, that such a man was sent to sound the tocsin of alarm before slavery had completed its work of moral death in this ‘hypocritical nation.’ Garrison began that discussion of the subject of slavery, which J. Q. Adams declared in his oration, delivered in this town on the 4th inst. ‘to be the only safety-valve by which the high pressure boiler of slavery could be prevented from a most fatal explosion in this country;’ and as a Southerner, I feel truly grateful for all his efforts to redeem not the slave only, but the _slaveholder_, from the polluting influences of such a system of crime.