Excerpt from Letter to the Rev. Samuel C. Thacher: On the Aspersions Contained in a Late Number of the Panoplist, on the Ministers of Boston and the Vicinity

My, Friend And Brother,

I Have recollected with much satisfaction the conversation which we held the other morning, on the subject of the late Review in the Panoplist for June, of a pamphlet, called "American Unitarianism." I was not surprised, but I was highly gratified, by the spirit with which you spoke of that injurious publication. Grief rather than indignation marked your countenance, and you mourned, that men, who bear the sacred and pacifick name of Christian, could prove so insensible to the obligations of their profession. Our conversation turned, as you recollect, on the falsehood of that Review, on its motives, and on the duties which are imposed on those ministers, whose good name and whose influence it was designed to destroy.
After leaving you, my thoughts still dwelt on the subject, and, painful as is the task, I have thought it my duty to exhibit to the publick the topicks which we discussed, as well as to add some reflections suggested by private meditation.

I bring to the subject a feeling, which I cannot well express in words, but which you can easily understand. It is a feeling, as if I were degrading myself by noticing the false and injurious charges contained in this review.

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