There is a time to tell the whole truth; but the wise man says.

There is 'a time to keep silence.'" I did not pretend, Gentlemen Reviewers, that my little, pleasing incidents were arguments in favor of slavery; you should not have been so alarmed; you are really rude; I almost feel disposed to say to you, for each of my tales, as the Rosemary said to the Wild Boar,-- "Sus, apage! haud tibi spiro;" which, not having a poetical friend near to translate for me, I venture to render as follows:-- "Thus to the Boar replied the Rosemary: O swine, depart! I do not breathe for thee." In noticing the manner in which many Northern writers, some of them amiable men, receive the candid views and statements of travellers and visitors at the South, I have been made to think of a company of the owls, such as you see in Audubon, listening to the reading of David's one hundred and fourth Psalm, in which he describes nature.

Not a smile of satisfaction; on the contrary, if you "Molest the ancient, solitary reign" of prejudice in their minds against the South, they either mope, or make a sad noise.

With regard to others, are there any limits to their anger and denunciations?
You may, without difficulty, imagine how this appears to the Southerner, who knows the truthfulness of the representations which excite this passionate resentment, and how much the character of the North for ordinary candor falls in his esteem, and how little disposed he is to heed their admonitions, and how absurd their demands upon his ecclesiastical bodies to suffer their remonstrances, appear, together with their subsequent withdrawal of fellowship for the reason publicly assigned; namely, that the South will not let them admonish her "in the Lord." Indeed, whatever may be true of slavery, the South looks on the great body of zealous anti-slavery people as being in as false and unnatural a state of excitement as the Massachusetts people were in the times of witchcraft.

A great delusion is over the minds of many at the North, like one of our eastern sea-fogs.