| Summary: | In the letter King discusses sectional division over slavery and expresses his hope that compromise will settle the issue and maintain unity: "The slavery question is the all absorbing subject here; and how it is to terminate God only knows...but I am free to declare that devotedly attached as I am to the Union, proud as I am of my country and the high destinies to which it must attain if we can but prostrate this fanatical spirit and preserve the Union as framed by our Fathers, yet I stand prepared, should these aggressions upon our rights continue, to resist at every hazard and at every sacrifice-I must say however I still cling to the hope of an adjustment, provided it is made apparent that the South, the whole South without division, stand together as one man. This alone will cause the Fanatics and unprincipled aspirants for political power to pause and thus enable the patriotic men of every section to meet upon grounds of compromise, and thus settle this agitating question."
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