Nor must you expect
us, in thinking of slavery as extending into our Territories, to picture
to ourselves an accomplished gentleman and lady searching a cemetery for
a spot to be the grave of a little slave-babe, and behaving themselves
as though they had feelings toward it and its mother irrespective of the
market-price of slaves. "Border Ruffians" are the archetypes of our
ideas respecting all who wish to extend slavery into our Territories. On
the score of humanity, madam, we have no objection to you and your
husband taking Kate and living in Kansas; how perfectly harmless that
might seem to many! for, no doubt, you and Kate are perfectly happy as
mistress and servant; you would need domestics there, and how could they
and you be better pleased than if they and you were just as Kate and you
now are to each other? but, O dear madam, that would be slavery, and we
are under sworn obligations here at the North to oppose the owning of a
human being with indiscriminate hatred. Say not it seems hard that if
you wish to live in Kansas, for example, you cannot have liberty to go
there with Kate, who is as much attached to you, I make no doubt, as any
Northern or English servant is to a household.
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