Please go home and tell missis; she told me to pray for you; 'twill finish up her joy." This is better than running away and going to Canada.

Those Christians who send the Gospel to the South by missionaries and religious tracts, to promote such scenes as this, do a better work than though they withheld missionaries and tracts from one half of the nation, and called it "Standing up for Jesus." I am sometimes inclined to put down all that I see and hear, good and bad, and publish a book to satisfy my truly candid but mistaken friends at the North as to the real truth on this subject.

But I have in mind the way in which similar works have already been received and treated by an unreasoning, passionate North.

I have amused myself sometimes in imagining what certain writers would say to some of the incidents which I have related in this letter.

Let me attempt to show you the spirit and manner of our Northern reviewers when one ventures to state favorable things relating to slavery.