Lewis Tappan ALS to D[wight] Baldwin, July 9, 1852

South Woodstock, Conn. July 9 / 52.

Rev. D. Baldwin

Lahaina

My dear Sir,

In addition to your letters of Oct 22 & Nov 5,
already acknowledged I am in receipt of yours of April 21st. Mr. [Coan?]
wrote also Dec. 5th and sent $100 to the Amer & For. Anti S. Soc.; also Mr
Green $100. These remembrances, from beloved missionaries and their
flocks, have given great satisfaction to the Committee & to other antislavery
friends. The money is very acceptable, but the confidence expressed adds
greatly to its value. When so many, in our own country, turn a deaf
ear to our expostulations & entreaties, and seem to be almost wholly
unconcerned at the abject & forlorn condition of their "countrymen in
chains", at the disgrace brought upon the country by Slavery, at the
dishonor cast upon Christianity by this iniquitous system, it is cheering
to know that converted heathen, at such a distance, under the faithful
preaching of sympathising Christian countrymen, feel for the slave, for
the free people of this country, and for the Redeemer, and express it
so munificently. Who can tell that the anti-slavery cause in this
country, will not, at no distant day, be sustained chiefly, by those
who have been converted, in far distant lands, by the instrumental-
ity of American missionaries! And it would not be surprising
if missionaries from lands, not long since in heathen darkness
and from islands in the sea, were to visit this country to teach
Americans some of the first principles of the Christian religion.

The "Annual Report", of which a number copy has
been sent you, and a printed "Address to Anti Slavery Christians", sign-
ed by some 40 individuals in different States, also forwarded to you,
will give you some view of the cause as it now exists among us.
A considerable number of both these pamphlets has been sent to Amer-
ican missionaries. We hope they will be read & produce a good
result.