The Liberator

LETTER FROM THEODORE D. WELD.

Mr. Weld's Letter, which we have placed upon our first page, is a capital effort of genius, and furnishes a mass of statistics that must put to silence and shame those who have sneered at the 'embryo clergymen,' the precious 'undergraduates,' 'the minors and young gentlemen,' &c. &c. of Lane Seminary. Mr. Weld is destined to be one of the great men not of America merely, but of the world. His mind is full of strength, proportion, beauty, and majesty; and as an orator, we are told he has scarcely a rival. In the following extract from his admirable Letter, there is indubitable evidence of intellectual grandeur and moral power. Such conceptions are of more value than golden argosies.

Whenever intellect moves in the sublimity of power, the heart generates its momentum. It is when the deep tides of emotion swell out from full fountains, that intellect is buoyed upward, and borne onward in majesty and might. A subject so deeply freighted with human interests as that of slavery, cannot be investigated and discussed intelligently and thoroughly, without amplifying and expanding the intellect, and increasing the power of action upon all subjects.