' Think of bleeding Kansas, even, refusing to incorporate
negro-suffrage in her constitution, when left free to follow the
dictates of common sense, and a wise self-interest. I sometimes think
that that one thing, as a philosophical fact, is worth all the trouble
which Kansas has cost. It cannot be 'unholy prejudice against color.' It
is human nature asserting the laws which God has established in it.
"I never," said she, "find abolitionists quoting the whole of the verse
which says: 'and hath made of one blood all the nations of the earth.'"
"What," said I, "do they leave out?"
"'And hath fixed the bounds of their habitations,' are some of the next
words," said she.
But you will tire of this. I will resume my story. I will only say that
I told the lady that some of my gentleman friends would call her a
strong-minded woman.
* * * * *
Your letter made me think of something which happened to a lady, a
fellow-traveller of ours, a few weeks, ago. She came here to visit a
lady whose husband owns one hundred and fifty slaves. The morning after
she reached the plantation, as she told me, she was awaked by the
cracking of whips.
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