We so know, because we know we never had anything to do with invasions and insurrections; and yet this total abstaining does not exempt us from the charge and the denunciation.
The question recurs.

What will satisfy them?
Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must, somehow, convince them that we do let them alone.

This, we know by experience, is no easy task.

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning; of our organization, but with no success.

In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them.
Alike unavailing to convince them is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them.
These natural and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them?
This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right.