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MESSRS. EDITORS,--I asked a place in your columns, to take some part in a discussion which had been pursued to a considerable extent in journals at the North, but had undergone little or no investigation at the South. As one residing in this latter region, I apprehended it might be it my power to give more correct views, so far as facts are concerned, of the real state of things in the slave-holding States, than could be given, or at least than were frequently given, in New England; while at the same time, it just be fully and freely admitted, that on the abstract question of slavery, its consistency or inconsistency with the word of God, its congruity or incongruity with the fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence, and with the American Constitution, a northern pen was just as competent as a southern to do justice to the subject; or if there be any difference arising from local situation, on said abstract question, a northern man might write with a more unprejudiced and mind, and therefore be more likely to arrive at truth.