DEAR FRIEND: Thou sayest, ‘that this evil (Slavery,) is at no distant period to come to an end, is the unanimous opinion of all who either notice the tendencies of the age, or believe in the prophecies of the Bible.’ But how can this be true, if Abolitionists have indeed rolled back the car of Emancipation? If our measures really tend to this result, how can this evil come to an end at no distant period? Colonizationists tell us, if it had not been for our interference, they could have done a vast deal better than they have done; and the American Unionists say, that we have paralyzed their efforts, so that they can do nothing; and yet ‘the tendencies of the age’ are crowding forward Emancipation. Now, what has produced this tendency? Surely every reflecting person must acknowledge, that Colonization cannot effect the work of Abolition. The American Union is doing nothing; and Abolitionists are pursuing a course which ‘will tend to bring slavery to an end, _if at all_, at the _most distant_ period,’--then do tell me, how the tendencies of the age can possibly lean towards Emancipation! Perhaps I shall be told, that the movements of Great Britain in the West Indies created this tendency. Ah! but this is a _foreign influence_, more so even than Northern influence; and if the North is ‘a foreign community,’ as thou expressly stylest it, and can on _that account_ produce _no_ influence on the South, how can the doings of England affect her? Now I believe with thee, that the tendencies of the age are toward Emancipation; but I contend that nothing but free discussion has produced this tendency--‘the present agitation of the subject’ is in fact _the thing_ which is producing this happy tendency. Now let us turn to the South, and ask her eagle-eyed politicians what _they_ are most afraid of. Read their answer in their desperate struggles to fetter the press and gag the mouths of--_whom?_--Colonizationists? Why no--_they_ talk colonization _themselves_, and are not at all afraid that the expatriation of a few hundreds or thousands in 20 years will ever drain the country of its millions of slaves, where they are now increasing at the rate of 70,000 every year. The American Unionists? O no! the South has not deemed them worthy of any notice! Pray, then, _whose_ mouths are slaveholders so fiercely striving to seal in silence? Why, the mouths of Abolitionists, to be sure--even our infant school children know this. Strange indeed, when the labors of these men are actually rolling back the car of Emancipation for one or two centuries! Why, the South ought to pour out her treasure, to support Anti-Slavery agents, and print Anti-Slavery papers and pamphlets, and do all she can to aid us in _rolling back_ Emancipation. Pray, write _her a book_, and tell her she has been very needlessly alarmed at our doings, and advise her to send us a few thousand dollars: her money would be very acceptable in these hard times, and we would take