I cannot but regard the taking hold of one great moral enterprise while another is in hand and but half achieved, as an outrage upon commonsense, somewhat like that of the dog crossing the river with his meat.

But you have seen fit to introduce to the public some novel views--I refer especially to your sentiments on government and religious perfection--and they have produced the effect which was to have been expected.

And now considering what stuff human nature is made of, is it to be wondered at that some honest-hearted, thorough-going Abolitionists should have lost their equanimity?
As you well know I am comparatively no bigot to any creed, political or theological, yet to tell the plain truth, I look upon your notions of government and religious perfection as downright fanaticism--as harmless as they are absurd.

I would not care a pin's head if they were preached to all Christendom; for it is not in the human mind (except in a peculiar and, as I think, diseased state) to believe them." Barring the extreme plainness of speech with which Wright and Tappan gave their advice to Mr.Garrison, it was in the main singularly sound and wise.

But the pioneer did not so regard it.