You can easily see that, let the colored people come to be a hireling class, and their interests and those of their masters are disjoined.

There would be conflicts and oppressions among themselves; they would fall into a degraded, serf-like condition; but now each of them partakes of his master's interests, and rises with him.

I am not here pleading for slavery in the abstract, but, the blacks being on the soil, it is far better for them to be owned than to be free.

Why are the Southwestern States, one after another, passing laws, or framing their constitutions, to shut out from their borders free negroes,--people in the very condition into which you would reduce by wholesale all the blacks in the South?
I pray you look and see that you are an abstractionist, setting what you deem a theoretical wrong against a practical good, and under the circumstances, a real mercy." "But," said Mr.North, "slavery impoverishes the soil, makes the whites shun labor, feeling it to be degrading, and it keeps the white children from industrial pursuits, and"-- "Please stop," said I, "my dear Sir, and think of what you are saying, and be not carried away by that popular flood of cant phrases.

Now you know that God has given our Southern friends a south country, nearer than ours to the tropics.