In resistance, and in retaliation, compromises are broken, and every political advantage is grasped at in self-defence, by the South.
Recrimination ensues, and civil war is threatened.

The only remedy is the entire abandonment by the North of interference with this subject; but this cannot take place so long as the Northern people labor under their doctrinal error that it is a sin to hold property in man.

Here is the root of the difficulty.

We agreed that if reflecting people at the North would adopt Scriptural views on that point, peace would soon ensue; for all the discussions of the supposed or real evils in slavery, which would then be the sole objects of animadversion, would elicit truth, and tend to good.

If the South felt that the North were truly her friend, they would both be found cooperating for the improvement and elevation of the colored race.