is this antislavery feeling in nine tenths of the people, the impudent iniquity of the Nebraska bill will call it forth.
8
Eight years ago I conscientiously approved and zealously defended this course of the American Board. Subsequent events have satisfied me, that, in the present circumstances of our country, making concessions to slaveholders, however slightly, and with whatever motives, even if not wrong in principle, is productive of no good. It does but strengthen slavery, and makes its demands still more exorbitant, and neutralizes the power of gospel truth.
9
This state of things is fast changing. Church members at the south now defend slavery as right. This is a new thing.