If we fulfil our trust, with regard to the blacks, according to the spirit and rules of the New Testament, I believe God will be our defender, and that all his attributes will be employed to maintain our authority over this people for his own great purposes.

We have nothing to fear except from white fanatics, North and South.' "'I have no idea,' said the Judge, 'of dooming every individual of this colored race to unalterable servitude.

I am in favor of putting them in the way of developing any talent which any of them, from time to time, may exhibit.

More of this, I am sure, would be done by us, if we were freed from the necessity of defending ourselves against Northern assaults upon our social system, involving, as these assaults do, peril to life, and to things dearer than life.

But I see tenfold greater evils in all the plans of emancipation which have ever been proposed than in the present state of things.' "The pastor of the place, who was present, had not taken much part in the discussion, though he had not purposely kept aloof from it.