These cases are the natural results of a superior and inferior class of society, standing in the relation, the one to the other, of proprietor and dependant, and such evils are not peculiar to this institution.

Human nature is the same everywhere.

The South is willing to have the abuses of irresponsible power among them compared with abuses, discomforts, disadvantages elsewhere.

Grant that an owner may abuse his liberty; ownership leads to more of care and protection than of abuse and cruelty.

The slaves are here; the question is not, What would be the best possible condition for these people under the sun, but, What is best for them, being on this soil.