What would become of the cause of freedom should such stories make their impression upon the minds of our people ?" "You might," said I, "make a heading of an auction-block, or slave-coffle; add the last pattern of a slave-driver's whip; picture a panting fugitive on his way to the North; give us a ship's hold, with a black boy just detected among the stowage.

You would thus, perhaps, keep these beautiful, touching illustrations of loving-kindness in slave-holders from having the least effect." "It is very important," said he, seriously, "to keep up a just abhorrence of slavery here at the North, because"-- "Excuse me," said I, "but what do you mean by an abhorrence of slavery ?" "Why," said he, "is not the Christian world agreed that 'slavery is the sum of all villanies' ?" "By no means, in the United States," said I; "you might with as real truth say that here slavery is the sum of all the loving-kindnesses." "Is not that letter of the Southern lady to her father," said he, "as rare a thing almost as a white crow ?" "O husband," said Mrs.North, "what an opinion you must have of Southern society!" "Is not Gustavus," said I, "a perfect representative of the North, on the subject of slavery?
Does not ultra anti-slavery find or make everybody, as the Aunt says, either fierce or flat ?" "You do not believe so," said he.
"Neither do you believe," said I, "that where Christianity has exerted the same influence on the hearts of men and women as on yours, and all the humanizing and elevating influences of society prevail, that letter is a rare product." "I cannot believe," said he, "that one can own a fellow-creature, hold God's image as property, and be a true Christian.

This lady is an exception which does not destroy the general rule." "My dear sir," said I, "you are an abstractionist.

You make the best possible condition under the sun your standard, to which you would make all men and things conform, instead of allowing for the vast inequalities, the necessities, the mutual dependence, the long historical conditions of men, as individuals and races.

A race or class of human beings may be in such a condition, that being 'owned' by a superior race will be, in their circumstances, a real mercy and a great blessing." "O my dear sir," said he, "I weep over the degradation of your moral sense.