ΤΟ

PROFESSOR STOWE AND DR. BACON,

ON

GOD'S REAL METHOD

WITH

GREAT SOCIAL WRONGS.

IN WHICH

THE BIBLE IS VINDICATED

FROM

GROSSLY ERRONEOUS INTERPRETATIONS.

BY AMOS A. PHELPS.

New York:

PUBLISHED BY WM. HARNED,

FOR THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.

1848.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847, by

WILLIAM HARNED,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

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NOTE.

AFTER the return of Mr. Phelps from the West Indies he was requested by a friend to revise his Letters to Professor Stowe, with a view to their republication in a permanent form. At Castine, Maine, a week or two before his death, he performed this labor. As the writer of this note made his last visit to him, at Roxbury, Mass., four days previous to his decease, when he was scarcely able to converse, he whispered, "My letters to Stowe are ready for the press, " and added, "The letters to Bacon may be added: I see no objection to it." But he had not revised the latter. He then bade his son bring the copy from another room to be disposed of as the Committee might see fit. The revising of these letters was the last literary work of our deceased brother, and the copy bore evidence that it was done with his accustomed particularity and thoroughness. This little book, then, may be considered his last legacy to the Christian public, to his anti-slavery brethren, and to the world; and the friends of Freedom, of an unadulterated Christianity, and of Gospel Missions, will prize it as an evidence of the skill, manliness, and good temper, with which he was accustomed to argue with opponents, assert the truth, and defend the Bible. The work is stereotyped, is put at a reasonable price, and it is hoped that it will have an extensive