Excerpt from Friendly Letters to the Society of Friends: On Some of Their Distinguishing Principles The inclination thus to address you has arisen from two sources. - The first is, the esteem in which, on various grounds, I have long been accustomed to hold the Society of Friends; an esteem generated and maintained by both public and private, official and personal acquaintance. The part which they have all along acted in a variety of the leading objects of humanity and Christian benevolence, has entitled them to it. They have been the staunch promoters of the suppression of the slave-trade and the abolition of slavery; of the circulation of the Bible; of uni versal education; of the mitigation of our sangui nary penal code; and of charitable relief in all its forms.-their high average character for simplicity, integrity, and general moral worth, has entitled them to it; a character which, with whatever amount of exceptions, either as to practice or principle, _it may be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.