Can we judge of society by a few isolated incidents?
If so, the learned professors of New England borrow money, and when they do not choose to pay, they murder their creditors, and cut them in pieces! or men kill their sleeping wives and children! Infidelity has been called a magnificent lie! Mrs.Stowe's "living dramatic reality" is nothing more than an interesting falsehood; nor ought to be offered, as an equivalent for truth, the genius that pervades her pages; rather it is to be lamented that the rich gifts of God should be so misapplied.
Were the exertions of the Abolitionists successful, what would be the result?
The soul sickens at the thought.

Scenes of blood and horror--the desolation of our fair Southern States--the final destruction of the negroes in them.

This would be the result of immediate emancipation here.
What has it been elsewhere?
Look at St.Domingo.A recent visitor there says, "Though opposed to slavery, I must acknowledge that in this instance the experiment has failed." He compares the negroes to "a wretched gibbering set, from their appearance and condition more nearly allied to beasts than to men." Look at the free colored people of the North and in Canada.
I have lived among them at the North, and can judge for myself.

Their "friends" do not always obtain their affection or gratitude.

A colored woman said to me, "I would rather work for any people than the Abolitionists.