Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
MY DEAR FRIEND: Thy book has appeared just at a time, when, from the nature of my engagements, it will be impossible for me to give it that attention which so weighty a subject demands. Incessantly occupied in prosecuting a mission, the responsibilities of which task all my po...
MY DEAR FRIEND: Thy book has appeared just at a time, when, from the nature of my engagements, it will be impossible for me to give it that attention which so weighty a subject...
2. LETTER II.DEAR FRIEND: Where didst thou get thy statement of what Abolitionists mean by immediate emancipation? I assure thee, it is a novelty. I never heard any abolitionist say that sla...
3. LETTER III.DEAR FRIEND:--I now pass on to the consideration of ‘the main principle of action in the Anti-Slavery Society.’ Thou art pleased to assert that it ‘rests wholly on a false deduc...
4. LETTER IV.DEAR FRIEND:--I thank thee for having furnished me with just such a simile as I needed to illustrate the connection which exists between the North and the South. Thou sayest, ‘S...
5. LETTER V.DEAR FRIEND: As an Abolitionist, I thank thee for the portrait thou hast drawn of the character of those with whom I am associated. They deserve all thou hast said in their favo...
6. LETTER VI.DEAR FRIEND: The _aggressive_ spirit of Anti-Slavery papers and pamphlets, of which thou dost complain, so far from being a repulsive one to me, is very attractive. I see in it...
7. LETTER VII.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 pe...
8. LETTER VIII.DEAR FRIEND:--In my last, I commented upon the opposition to the establishment of a College in New Haven, Conn., for the education of colored young men. The same remarks are app...
9. LETTER IX.DEAR FRIEND:--Thou sayest ‘There are cases also, where differences in age, and station, and character, forbid all interference to modify the conduct and character of others.’ Le...
10. LETTER X.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 b...
11. LETTER XI.DEAR FRIEND: I come now to that part of thy book, which is, of all others, the most important to the women of this country; thy ‘general views in relation to the place woman is...
12. did. I see them even standing on Mount Calvary, around his cross, in themost exposed situation; but He never _rebuked_ them; He never told them it was unbecoming _their sphere in life_ to mingle in the crowds which followed his footsteps. Then, agai...
13. LETTER XII.DEAR FRIEND: In my last, I made a sort of running commentary upon thy views of the appropriate sphere of woman, with something like a promise, that in my next, I would give thee...
14. LETTER XIII.Thou appearest to think, that it is peculiarly the duty of _women_ to educate the little children of this nation. But why, I would ask--why are they any more bound to engage in...