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Show HcMKL\'N, Dcccmbct• 6th, 1853. DEARSIU,- Your note of November 20th, requesting a line from me for the Autographs for Freedom, is reccivecl. I ''ish that I had something that would add to the literary value of your lundable enterpri.;e. In so great a cause ::ts that of human liberty, every great interest in society ought to have a voice and a decisive testimony. Art slwulcl be in sympathy with freedom and Jitcl·aturc, and an human learning should speak with unmistal.:uble accents :fbr the elevation, evangelization, and liberation of the oppressed. In a future clay, the historian cannot purge our political history fJ"om the shame of wanton and mercenary oppression. But there is not, I believe, a book in the literature of our 12* |
