O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!" The landlord failing to have her called in time for the train, she complains: There is no promptness, no order, no system down here.

The institution of slavery is as ruinous to the white man as to the black....

Three northern servants, engineered by a Yankee boarding-house keeper, would do more work than a dozen of these slaves.

The free blacks, who receive wages, do no more than the others.

Such is the effect of slavery upon labor.