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You
are aware of some of the circumstances which may have led to the
state of feeling, with many in our society, which we so much
deplore. And it is my fervent desire that none of you, in any
steps you may consider it your duty to take, may afford just
cause of uneasiness, by any compromise of Christian principle,
any improper harshness of language, or by the introduction of
any subject not strictly belonging to the anti-slavery cause.
Your situation is one of peculiar difficulty and delicacy. Both
from a regard to your own religious society and the suffering
slave, you have need to exercise great watchfulness, and to
cultivate feelings of brotherly love and that 'charity which
suffereth long, and is kind.' The beautiful example of John
Woolman, in this respect, is worthy of your imitation. His
labors were, for years, far less encouraged by the leading
influences of society than your own at the present time; yet we
find, in reading his invaluable journal, no traces of bitterness
or uncharitable feeling.


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