I would that every human being that God has made were free, were it in accordance with His will;--free bodily, free spiritually--"free indeed!" Neither do I desire to deny the evils of slavery, any more than I would deny the evils of the factory system in England, or the factory and apprenticeship system in our own country.

I only assert the necessity of the existence of slavery at present in our Southern States, and that, as a general thing, the slaves are comfortable and contented, and their owners humane and kind.
I have lived a great deal at the North--long enough to see acts of oppression and injustice there, which, were any one so inclined, might be wrought into a "living dramatic reality." I knew a wealthy family.

All the labor of the house was performed by a "poor relation," a young and delicate girl.

I have known servants struck by their employers.

At the South I have never seen a servant struck, though I know perfectly well such things are done _here_ and _everywhere_.