19/39 You shock me unspeakably by this news. I should be loath to believe it! I have spent my own funds in this matter, and I have told my own agents to do nothing in the slightest contravention of the laws." "None the less, these things have been done, my dear lady. They have awakened the greatest feeling in the South--a feeling of animosity which extends even to the free colonies of blacks which have been established. The relations between the two great sections of this country are already strained sufficiently. |