There are some low Southerners about here who go around buying up refractory and vicious negroes; they are the dregs of society; but I have listened, with others, at the North, to men, on the subject of "freedom," who, I think, would take kindly to this business, and they would be as hearty in it as they are now in vilifying it.

The "Legrees" are not confined to the South.

Do not incline your ear to those who systematically inveigh against slavery, making it their principal business.

You will invariably find that there is something false and wrong in their principles as well as spirit.

Be careful to what influences you commit your thoughts and your taste.
You need not become a friend of oppression; you need not approve of "auction-blocks," and "separation of families;" slavery can exist when these are done away.