A church-member who should separate husband and wife for no fault, would be disciplined at the South as surely as for inhumanity at the North.

But oh, we say at the North, only to think, that all those fine-looking people whom Hattie saw from the barouche, that Monday afternoon, were liable on Tuesday morning to have their kid gloves and finery taken from them, and to be marched off to the auction-block! Hence our commiseration.

And it is a most groundless commiseration.
One thing is especially impressed on my mind.

There being sins and evils in slavery, as all confess, there are men and women here who are perfectly competent to manage them without our help.

There is nothing that seems to me more offensive than our self-righteousness, as I must call it, at the North, in exalting ourselves above our fathers and brethren of all Christian denominations at the South; as though there were no conscience, no Christian sensibility, no piety here, but it must all be supplied from the North.