37/120 We agree wonderfully well about slavery, and it is not often that I meet any person with whom I agree on that subject. For I hate slavery from the bottom of my soul; and yet I am made sick by the cant and the silly mock reasons of the Abolitionists. The nigger driver and the negrophile are two odious things to me. I must make Lady Macbeth's reservation: 'Had he not resembled--,'"] The Governor must have looked back with regret to that period in the history of the colony when he was underhanded in the clerical department. He liked his work, because he liked those for whom he was working. |