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Emery Brown and Louis O. Cowan write to William Lloyd Garrison to express their "most cordial support" for the "principle of immediate abolition which you are so zealously advocating and maintaining". They identify themselves as "young men just entering on the business of life" and they "feel under imperative obligations to render every assistance in our power to unmove the fetters which so cruelly bind both the bodies and minds of a large portion of our fellow countrymen." Brown and Cowan then say that their purpose in writing is to "state how far public opinion goes to favor the doctrines of immediate emancipation," as well as showing how the American Colonization Society is viewed in Augusta. They discuss Garrison's answer to a pro-colonization lecture given in Augusta by Cyril Pearl saying Garrison left Pearl "and the Society he advocated in no very flattering situation." Brown and Cowan describe an additional attempt by Pearl to lecture in support of colonization, as well as one by a "Mr. Thacher .... Editor of the Mercantile Journal, &c&c" who "left the place with as few laurels as did his less eloquent antecedent Pearl." They report that the "friends of general and universal emancipation have increased" and offer their assistance if a society is organized in the area. They then request Garrison send them the Liberator and in the postscript, they grant him permission to use the letter and provide the names of other people who would like both the Liberator and Garrison's "Thoughts on Colonization" sent to them.