Then would rise up the Northern antipathy to the negro, stronger, probably, in the abolitionist than in the pro-slavery man; and as we sought to remove the negroes northward and westward, the Free States would invoke the Supreme Court, and the Dred Scott decision, and then we should see, with a witness, whether the black man has 'any rights' on free soil 'which the' original settlers 'are bound to respect.' Think of bleeding Kansas, even, refusing to incorporate negro-suffrage in her constitution, when left free to follow the dictates of common sense, and a wise self-interest.

I sometimes think that that one thing, as a philosophical fact, is worth all the trouble which Kansas has cost.

It cannot be 'unholy prejudice against color.' It is human nature asserting the laws which God has established in it.
"I never," said she, "find abolitionists quoting the whole of the verse which says: 'and hath made of one blood all the nations of the earth.'" "What," said I, "do they leave out ?" "'And hath fixed the bounds of their habitations,' are some of the next words," said she.
But you will tire of this.

I will resume my story.

I will only say that I told the lady that some of my gentleman friends would call her a strong-minded woman.
* * * * * Your letter made me think of something which happened to a lady, a fellow-traveller of ours, a few weeks, ago.