Letter from John Stuart Mill
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line 1: Saint Ve'ran, near Avignon
line 2: October 22 1861
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line 4: Sir
line 5: Owing to absence from England
line 6: I have only just received
line 7: the book which Mr Olmsted
line 8: has done me the honour to
line 9: connect my name. I was
line 10: already tolerably well acquainted
line 11: with Mr Olmsted's writings,
line 12: which I regard as of the
line 13: highest authority and importance
line 14: on the slavery questionPage 2
line 1: considered on its economical
line 2: side. I am much gratified
line 3: that he should think me
line 4: deserving of so high a
line 5: compliment, and am glad that
line 6: by means of it I am placed
line 7: before the American public
line 8: in the character of an
line 9: uncompromising enemy of
line 10: slavery. In that character
line 11: I entirely approve and applaud
line 12: the context in which the peoplePage 3
line 1: of the Northern States are
line 2: engaged and which, if they
line 3: stand firm, as they seem likely
line 4: to do, is more calculated than
line 5: anything else which could have
line 6: happened, to wind up the national
line 7: character once more to the hefty
line 8: patch which it attained in the
line 9: great days of the War of Independence.
line 10: I beg you to offer to Mr Olmsted
line 11: my best thanks for the present
line 12: of his book. I am Sir
line 13: Yours very faithfully
line 14: J. S. Mill