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My dear
Garrison: Yours of the 21st ultimo has within the present hour reached me at this place, where I am staying for a few days, going almost daily into
Newcastle to consult with my anti-slavery friends there on the progress of the cause in
America, and the means we may legitimately employ to promote it. . . .
I have been a deeply interested observer of late events on your side of the ocean, and have studied them with all the powers of reflection I can command.
My talk is incessantly in reference to them, and I miss no opportunity of publicly addressing my countrymen upon them.
I enclose you copies of reports made of my late speeches in
London and
Leeds, the tenor of which I trust you will approve.
I have endeavored to make myself master of the constitutional argument, in relation to the doctrine of State rights and secession, which I am often called upon to debate.
I am extremely glad to find the views expressed in your letter before me so coincident with my own. I have pondered much and deeply upon the probable issues of the present war. I was occupied in writing all day yesterday upon the subject, and could not resist the conclusion, that the present struggle
must end in the downfall of slavery.
I dare say, if I had time to