Excerpt from Letters to the Hon.: William Jay
From, the Rev. John Breckinridge, President of the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania.
New-York, May 13, 1835.
I have examined with much interest and satisfaction, the proof sheets of the chief parts (the whole being not quite complete) of Dr. Reese's "Letters to the Hon, Wm. Jay," in reply to his late work against the American Colonization Society.
Dr. Reese has largely merited the thanks of the American people, for the prompt and satisfactory manner in which he has refuted and exposed a work, which, upon a momentous and agitating question, and under an imposing name, has said more disingenuous, sophistical, and yet dangerous things, than I had supposed it possible to be uttered in so small a compass, by so honest, so good, and so sensible a man.
John Breckinridge.
From the Rev. Drs. Milnor, Brownlee, and De Witt.
Dear Sir, - Having been favoured with the opportunity of reading the proof sheets of a large portion of your answer to the recent publication of the Hon. William Jay, assailing the principles and proceedings of the American Colonization Society, we be lea to express our approbation of the views which you have presented; and to add, that, in our opinion, you have very successfully defended the Institution against the charges in the book referred to, exposed the mistakes and errors of its worthy author, and presented arguments and facts, as we conceive, abundantly sufficient to satisfy every impartial mind of the preference which should be given to the practical operations now in successful prosecution by the friends of colonization, for the relief of a distressed class of our fellow men, over the fruitless, impracticable, and dangerous theories, of the advocates of immediate abolition.
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