None of the antislavery papers, political or religious, say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

Our Northern instructors on the subject of slavery, the orators, the Uncle Tom's Cabins, "The Scholar an Agitator," have never taught us to believe this.

The South, we are instructed to think, is a Golgotha, a valley of Hinnom; compacts with it are covenants with hell.

But here is one holy angel with its music; a ministering spirit; but is she a Lot in Sodom?
Abdiel in the revolted principality?
a desolate, mourning Rizpah on that rock which overlooks four millions of slaves and their tortures?
In a less instructed state of mind on this subject, I should once have said, on reading this letter,--This is slavery.

Here is a view of life at the South.