elease the oppressed, to give liberty to the
captive, and to break the fetters of those that are bound. She
is marching onward with accelerated step, and, wherever she
leaves the true impress of her heavenly influence, the moral
wilderness is changed into the garden of the Lord. May it never
be ours to do what may seem to be even the slightest obstacle to
her universal sway.

"But I have already written more than I intended. In bringing
this communication to a close, allow me to express to you
individually, and as a Board, my most sincere Christian
attachment. Whatever course any members may have taken in
relation to this matter, I must believe that they have acted
from what has seemed to them a sense of duty. Far be it from me
to impeach their motives. Time, the great test of truth, may
show them their course in a very different light from that in
which they now view it. I may, as a Christian, lament that their
views of duty are not more in unison with my own. I may, as a
man, feel heart-sickened at the diseased, the deplorably
diseased state of the public mind, in relation to two and a half
millions of my fellow-men in bondage. I may, as a citizen of a
Free state, blush at the humiliating fact, that not only the
tyranny, but the ubiquity of the slave power is everywhere so
manifest; that it has insinuated itself into our free domain to
such a degree that there seems to be as much mental Slavery in
the Free states, as there is personal in the Slave states. I may
feel all this, but I must not impeach the motives by which
others have been governed."

There were twenty-one managers present at the reading of this letter,
and, at its conclusion, a noble friend of the slave moved that the
resignation be not accepted; the motion was lost by a vote of fourteen
against seven. It was then moved that it be accepted 'with regret:' this
was carried by the same vote! But 'with regret' was not an empty form
for easing this action to its recipient; how much it meant is seen in
the resolution that was added by unanimous acceptance:
"_Resolved_,--That this Board are mainly indebted to Professor C.D.
Cleveland for the prominent and influential position it has attained in
the regards of this Christian community, and that they bear an earnest
testimony to the sound judgment and unwearied zeal which have ever
characterized the discha