One of the gentlemen took me home with him.

"This is most of it politics," said he, "and newspaper trade, this anti-slavery feeling.

The people generally are not fanatics; they are kind and humane, and their sensibilities are touched by tales of distress."-- "Especially Southern," said I."Last eve I read in your papers four outrages which happened within fifteen miles of this city, and two in your city, which equalled, to say the least, in barbarity anything that ever comes to my knowledge among our people." "'The next Sabbath, as I have since learned, my good brother was very comprehensive, discriminating, and impartial in his supplications.

He really distinguished between those at the South who "oppress" their fellow-men, and those who "remember them that are in bonds as bound with them." But,' said the pastor, 'the most of those who use that latter expression at the North really think the Apostle had slaves, as a class, in mind.

I have no such belief.