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Montgomery, A labama, August 24tli, 1860. When you delivered your speech, a few months ago, at the Academy of Music, I embraced the occasion to express to you my admiration of the candor and fairness with which you had treated the subject of American slavery. I thought the ground you occupied in that speech altogether worthy of your eminent reputation as a logician. It was something new to find a Northern man willing to look the question fairly in the face, and I confess I thought you a little heroic when you discussed it in the light alone of facts and of reason. I believe with you, on the subject of American slavery, that there is no middle ground to be occupied. It is right and just that the black race should be held in bondage, or it is wrong and sinful. It is right in my judgment; because we have two unequal races, which cannot live together in harmony in any other relation than that of master and servant. Safety to society demands the continnance of that relation, as it demands and justifies, on the same principle, the scheme of criminal jurisprudence, even to the sacrifice of life; as it demands and justifies an aggressive war, the prosecution of which often leads to the wholesale slaughter of the most patriotic and chivalrous of the people. Safety to society fully justifies American slavery, because an act of freedom would be the signal of an irrepressible conflict indeed, between the races, which would end in the destruction of the blacks, and the demoralization of the whites. The United States occupy a peculiar position in connection with the negroes. The latter are distributed over about half the States of the Union. While England maintained slavery it had only a colonial existence. The Imperial Government recognized it only in its colonies. When it was abolished in the West I ndies, the act of emancipation left the home people as free of the blac
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