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I am sometimes inclined to put down all that I see and hear, good and
bad, and publish a book to satisfy my truly candid but mistaken friends
at the North as to the real truth on this subject. But I have in mind
the way in which similar works have already been received and treated by
an unreasoning, passionate North. I have amused myself sometimes in
imagining what certain writers would say to some of the incidents which
I have related in this letter. Let me attempt to show you the spirit and
manner of our Northern reviewers when one ventures to state favorable
things relating to slavery. I will take some of the incidents already
related in this letter and let these men review them. I am perfectly
familiar with their style, from having been employed in helping your
uncle prepare the notices of new publications for the "---- Review."
Here, then, I will give you first a supposed notice of my little book,
should I make one, from a Northern religious newspaper, quoting, in all
cases, the identical expressions from articles which I have read:--
"'The authoress, it seems, is yet in her Paradise of slavery.' Her
'opulent friends' and the slave-holders generally, it would appear, got
up little tableaux for her, to impose on her good-nature.
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