He quits the homes of men for the haunts of wolves.

He prefers to encounter a life of trial, however bitter, or death, however terrible, to dragging out his existence under the dominion of these _kind_ masters.
The apologists for slavery often speak of the abuses of slavery; and they tell us that they are as much opposed to those abuses as we are; and that they would go as far to correct those abuses and to ameliorate the condition of the slave as anybody.

The answer to that view is, that slavery is itself an abuse; that it lives by abuse; and dies by the absence of abuse.

Grant that slavery is right; grant that the relations of master and slave may innocently exist; and there is not a single outrage which was ever committed against the slave but what finds an apology in the very necessity of the case.

As we said by a slaveholder (the Rev.A.G.