Here they are mistaken, as I now view the subject.

The British people and the French, looking at the blacks in a colony, settle the question of emancipation in their own minds without much difficulty.

But it would be found to be a different thing to emancipate the colored race, to live side by side with the English people in the mother-country.

In that case, a contest between the two races for the possession of power, and innumerable offences and practical difficulties, would, in time, lead to the extermination, or expatriation, of one of the two races, or to their intermarriage, if the universal history of such conjunction of races is any guide.
I do not wonder that the good lady with the "marsh-mallow" exclaimed so at your groundless commiseration of the sick among the slaves.

You have no more idea of the practical relation between the whites and the blacks, the owners and the slaves, than most of the English people, who have never been here, have of our Federal and State relations.
I will tell you an incident which I know to be literally true.
A lady from a free state was visiting at the South.