DEAR FRIEND:--Thou sayest, ‘the _best_ way to make a person like a thing which is disagreeable, is to try in some way to make it agreeable.’ So, then, instead of convincing a person by sound argument and pointed rebuke that sin is _sin_, we are to _disguise_ the opposite virtue in such a way as to make him like that, in preference to the sin he had so dearly loved. We are to _cheat_ a sinner out of his sin, rather than to compel him, under the stings of conviction, to give it up from deep-rooted principle. If this is the course pursued by ministers, then I wonder not at the kind of converts which are brought into the church at the present day. Thy remarks on the subject of prejudice, show but too plainly how strongly thy own mind is imbued with it, and how little thy colonization principles have done to exterminate this feeling from thy own bosom. Thou sayest, ‘if a certain class of persons is the subject of unreasonable prejudice, the peaceful and christian way of removing it would be to endeavor to render the unfortunate persons who compose this class, so useful, so _humble, so unassuming_, &c. that prejudice would be supplanted by complacency in their goodness, and _pity_ and sympathy for their disabilities.’ ‘If the friends of the blacks had quietly set themselves to work to increase their intelligence, their usefulness, &c. and then had appealed to the _pity_ and benevolence of their fellow citizens, a very different result would have appeared.’ Or in other words, if one person is guilty of a sin against another person, I am to let the sinner go entirely unreproved, but to persuade the injured party to bear with humility and patience all the outrages that are inflicted upon him, and thus try to soothe the sinner ‘into complacency with their goodness’ in ‘bearing all things, and enduring all things.’ Well, suppose I succeed:--is that sinner won from the evil of his ways by _principle_? No! Has he the principle of love implanted in his breast? No! Instead of being in love with the virtue exhibited by the individual, because _it is virtue_, he is delighted with the personal convenience he experiences from the exercise of that virtue. He feels kindly toward the individual, _because_ he is an _instrument_ of his enjoyment, a mere _means_ to promote his wishes. There is _no_ reformation there at all. And so the colored people are to be taught to be ‘very _humble_’ and ‘_unassuming_,’ ‘_gentle_’ and ‘_meek_,’ and then the ‘_pity_ and generosity’ of their fellow citizens are to be appealed to. Now, no one who knows anything of the influence of Abolitionists over the colored people, can deny that it has been _peaceful_ and christian; had it not been so, they never would have seen those whom they had regarded as their best friends, mobbed and persecuted, without raising an arm in their defence. Look, too, at the rapid spread of thorough temperance principles among them, and their moral reform and other laudable and useful