Hence the "peck of corn." By the will of an eminent citizen
at the North, establishing courses of lectures for all coming time, the
pay of each lecturer is to be determined by the market value, at the
time, of a bushel of wheat. This is a fair standard for the unit of
measure.
In arguing with one who should insist that the abuses in slavery are a
reason for breaking up the institution in this country, I should feel
justified in maintaining that there are as many instances of a happy
relation between, master and servant in the Southern country as there
are happy marriages in the same number of households anywhere. Let there
be four millions of an inferior, dependent race mixed up with a superior
race, anywhere on earth, and of course, while human nature is what it
is, there will be hardships, wrong-doings, oppressions, and barbarisms.
At the North, we get scraps of anguish in the newspapers relating to
hardships at the South; and many pore upon them till they make
themselves half-crazed. All the circumstances serving to qualify the
narrative are sometimes withheld, and the stories are told with dramatic
art. There is sorrow enough everywhere to furnish material for such kind
of writing, especially to those who make it their calling, or find it
for their interest, to publish it.
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