New York April 3^d 1862.

My Dear Sir

Our kind friend Miss Anthony in
forms me that she handed to you, at my
request, the sum of five dollars, but could
not tell the name of the person from whom
it came. It was Mr^s. Janet Borwick,
of Dundee, in Scotland, the President of
the ladies' Antislavery Society in that
place. The commission was give to
me some time ago, and I have been
waiting for an opportunity personally to
fulfill it. I wish it had been ten times
as much. You are held in great esteem &
affectionate sympathizing regard on the
other side of the water. But I need not tell
you this, for you know it from themselves.
I was glad to find that you had defended
the truth & freedom of our Constitution there I found great ignorance and misconceptions
prevailing and now it is a positive
fact that here in America, at this
very time, the great obstacle in the way
of emancipation is the refusal on the part
of professed friends of the enslaved to demand
it as an obligation by the Constitution as well
as a command from God. So long as it is ad
mitted, even by the emancipation party, that
we have no right to demand emancipation
by the Constitution, how can we hope for
success? It is thrown entirely upon the
war, and at the same time it is denied
that emancipation is the direct object
or ever can be made rightfully an object
of the war itself. What then can be the
result, even if the rebellion be triumphantly
crushed, but the continuance of slavery
as it was before? But for signs and
works, and will do all his pleasure, and our
trust in his righteousness and mercy. May
he be with you continually, my dear friend,
and bless and keep you by his grace. Oh
that we may, in all this struggle, keep fast hold of Christian life
and now and evermore be found in Him, and working for Him.
A very little pure love is worth a great many word without it; and alas, the boasted love of freedom in this country is in very many cases only the pride of Anglo Saxon superiority, combined with a determination to keep the privileges of freedom all to ourselves, and to leave the poor slave in undisturbed possession of their masters. But the prevalence of this spirit must not lead us to the conclusion that there is no such thing as true piety, or the love of freedom for others, but only to greater faithfulness for ourselves and others, in Christ, & for his sake. May he grant us the gift of his gracious grace!

Ever most truly yours

Eloise Cheever George B. Cheever