and odium, as well as by a sense of guilt. Why may not abolitionists speak some things _to their shame_, as the Apostle did to the Corinthians? As to anger, it is no design of ours to excite so wicked a passion. We cannot help it, if, in rejecting the truth, they become angry. Could Stephen help the anger of the Jews, when ‘they gnashed upon him with their teeth’? But I had thought the principal motives urged by abolitionists were not these; but that they endeavored to excite men and women to active exertion,--first, to cleanse _their own_ hands of the sin of slavery, and secondly, to save the South, if possible, and the North, at any rate, from the impending judgments of heaven. The result of their mission in this country, cannot in the least affect the validity of that mission. Like Noah, they may preach in vain; if so, the destruction of the South can no more be attributed to them, than the destruction of the antediluvian world to him. ‘In vain,’ did I say? Oh no! The discussion of the rights of the slave has opened the way for the discussion of _other rights_, and the ultimate result will most certainly be, ‘the breaking of _every_ yoke,’ the letting the oppressed of _every_ grade and description go free,--an emancipation far more glorious than any the world has ever yet seen,--an introduction into that ‘liberty wherewith Christ hath made his people free.’ I will now say a few words on thy remarks about Esther. Thou sayest, ‘When a woman is placed in similar circumstances, where death to herself and all her nation is one alternative, and there is nothing worse to fear, but something to hope as the other alternative, then she may safely follow such an example.’ In this sentence, thou hast conceded every thing I could wish, and proved beyond dispute just what I adduced this text to prove in my Appeal. I will explain myself. Look at the condition of our country--Church and State deeply involved in the enormous crime of slavery: ah! more--claiming the sacred volume, as our charter for the collar and chain. What then can we expect, but that the vials of divine wrath will be poured out upon a nation of oppressors and hypocrites? for we are loud in our professions of civil and ecclesiastical liberty. Now, as a Southerner, I know that reflecting slaveholders expect their peculiar institution to be overthrown in blood. Read the opinion of Moore of Virginia, as expressed by him in the House of Delegates in 1832:--‘What must be the ultimate consequence of retaining the slaves amongst us? The answer to this enquiry is both obvious and appalling. It is, that _the time will come, and at no distant day, when we shall be involved in all the horrors of a servile war_, which will not end until both sides have suffered much, until the land shall everywhere be red with blood, and until the slaves or the whites are totally exterminated. If there be any truth in history, and if the time has not arrived when causes have ceased