Thou sayest, ‘this tended to irritate the whites, and to increase their prejudices against the blacks.’ The _truth always_ irritates the proud, impenitent sinner. To charge abolitionists with this irritation, is something like the charge brought against the English government by the captain of the slaver I told thee of in my second letter, who threw all his human merchandize overboard, in order to escape detection, and then charged this horrible wholesale murder upon the government; because, said he, they had no business to make a law to hang a man if he was found engaged in the slave trade. So _we_ must bear the guilt of man’s angry passions, because the _truth_ we preach is like a two-edged sword, cutting through the bonds of interest on the one side, and the cords of caste on the other. As to our increasing the prejudice against color, this is just like the North telling us that we have increased the miseries of the slave. Common sense cries out against the one as well as the other. With regard to prejudice, I believe the truth of the case to be this: the rights of the colored man _never_ were advocated by any body of men in their length and breadth, before the rise of the Anti-Slavery Society in this country. The propagation of these ultra principles has produced in the northern States exactly the same effect, which the promulgation of the doctrine of immediate emancipation has done in the southern States. It has _developed_ the latent principles of pride and prejudice, not _produced_ them. Hear John Green, a Judge of the Circuit Court of Kentucky, in reference to abolition efforts having given birth to the opposition against emancipation now existing in the South: ‘I would rather say, it has been the means of _manifesting_ that opposition, which _previously_ existed, but _laid dormant_ for want of an exciting cause.’ And just so has it been with regard to prejudice at the North--when there was no effort to obtain for the colored man his _rights_ as a man, as an American citizen, there was no opposition exhibited, because it ‘laid dormant for want of an exciting cause.’