I know it root and branch, from pith to bark.

All the lecturers on the subject have not labored in vain, nor spent their strength for nought, with me.

And now to be called "ignorant!" Just as though I could not reason, that is, draw inferences from premises, make deductions from facts.

There is the great fact of slavery; it is "the sum of all villanies;" men holding their fellow-men in bondage for the sake of gain; the heart naturally covetous, oppressive, and cruel, where power is unlimited.

As though the law of kindness could, in such circumstances, possibly prevail and mitigate the sorrows of the bondman! The direct influence of slavery is to debase, to make barbarous, to petrify; I know as well as though I saw it that the South must be full of neglected, perishing objects, cast out to perish in their sicknesses.
You doubtless are acquainted, dear Aunty, with the great change in the mode of reasoning introduced by Lord Bacon.