. Autographs for freedom. Richmond, Dec. 1st, 1853. Beookltn, December 6th, 1853. ?QEAR SIR,— Your note of November 29t]i, requesting aline from me for the Autographs for Freedom, is re-ceived I wish that I had something that would add to theliterary value of your laudable enterprise. In so greata cause as that of human liberty, every great interestin society ought to have a voice and a decisive testi-mony. Art should be in sympathy with freedom andliterature, and all human learning should speak withunmistakable accents for the elevation, evangelization,and liberation of the oppressed. In a fu
. Autographs for freedom. Richmond, Dec. 1st, 1853. Beookltn, December 6th, 1853. ?QEAR SIR,— Your note of November 29t]i, requesting aline from me for the Autographs for Freedom, is re-ceived I wish that I had something that would add to theliterary value of your laudable enterprise. In so greata cause as that of human liberty, every great interestin society ought to have a voice and a decisive testi-mony. Art should be in sympathy with freedom andliterature, and all human learning should speak withunmistakable accents for the elevation, evangelization,and liberation of the oppressed. In a future day, thehistorian cannot purge our political history from theshame of wanton and mercenary ojDpression. But there is not, I believe, a book in the literature of our 12* 274 A Lettee. country tliat will be alive and known a hundred yearshence, in whicli can be found the taint of literature of the world is on the side of liberty. I am very truly
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