Letters to the Hon William Jay Being a Reply to His Inquiry Into the American
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If then the system of African Colonization is, as you say, " full of absurdities, and contradictions, and evils, which are NOT SEEN, because they are concealed by a veil of prejudice, " I fear that this veil yet obstructs your own vision, for, " Optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. " And when you think you see them, and attempt to put your finger on them — they are not there ! With due respect, Yours, &c. HON. WILLIAM JAY. LETTER VIII. Sir, I COME now to the " Influence... of the Society on Slavery, " which is the subject of your fifth chapter. And here the reader will perceive, that you only speak of the moral injiuence expected by the friends of colonization to result from the society, and no longer urge or pretend, what you have elsewhere asserted, that it "professes to be a remedy for slavery. " And yet you deny that it exerts this in- fluence " in any degree, " and after classifying the kinds of in- fluence which must operate, you say, " it will not be pretended that the society addresses itself to the conscience of the slave- holder.
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