"
"I could not be hired by wealth," said she, "to have them for help, even
here. I never did like them; and when I think that there are good men
and women who do, and who are as kind to the poor creatures as this dear
lady, I think that we should give thanks to God."
"Oh, the Southern people are not all like this good lady, by any means,"
said I.
"'Peradventure,'" said she, "'there be fifty righteous.' There must be
tens of thousands. People like this lady are very apt to make good the
saying of the blackberry pickers when they see a blackberry, 'Where
there's one there's more.' The letter reads as though it were an
every-day thing, a matter of course, for this lady to be kind and loving
to the blacks; and for my part I bless any one who has anything to do
for her or for those like her. Our papers never tell us such stories as
this letter contains. No, they, do not love to hear them, I fear; but if
a slave is beaten or ill-treated, then the chimes begin, 'enormous
wrong,' 'stupendous injustice,' 'sum of all villanies.'"
"Why, my dear," said I, "you are getting to be pro-slavery very fast."
"Never," said she, "if you mean by that, as I suppose you do, approving
all that is involved in slavery and all that is committed under the
system.
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