Excerpt from A Letter to the Abolitionists Lovejoy, as is needed to give assurance against its repetition. I have missed the true tone in the Emancipator, ' the organ ofyour National Society. I account for this silence, by your strong sympathy with your slaughtered friend, and by your feeling as ifone, who had so gen erously given himself to the cause, deserved thing but praise. Allow me to say, that here you err. The individual is thing, in comparison with the truth. Bring out the truth, suffer who may. The fact, that a good man has fallen through a mistaken conception of duty, makes it more necessary to expose the error. Death, courageously met in a good cause by a respected friend, may throw a false lustre over dangerous principles which were joined with his virtues. Besides, we do t dishor a friend in ackwledging him to have erred. The best men err. The most hored defenders ofreligion and virtue have sometimes been impelled, by the very fervor which made them great, into rash courses. I regret, then, that your disapprobation of Mr. Lovejoy's resistance to force has t been as earnest, as your grateful ackwledgments of his self-consecration to a holv cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.