We cannot easily be convinced that this is not exactly parallel with being one of the slaves at the South, nor that to be a slave does not have these things for its inseparable conditions, which, we imagine, are always obtruding their direful visages; namely, "auction-block," "overseer," "whip," "chattelism," "separations," "down-trodden," "cattle." Hence it is easy for orators and preachers to work on our sympathies.

There are scattered facts enough to justify any tale which any public speaker chooses to relate.

I confess that my respect for many of our Northern people has not risen, as I see them from this point of view.

They ought not to be so easily duped, so ready to believe evil, so quickly carried away by partial representations, and so unwilling to take comprehensive views of such a subject as this.

I condemn myself in speaking thus; I partly blame the novel-writers, and the editors of party papers, and political leaders.