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"No, Sir," said I, "she is the general rule among all decent people, and
there is as much sense of decency and propriety there as with us, as
many good people, kind, humane, generous, and it is as rare a thing for
a servant to be ill-used there, as for our apprentices, and servants,
and even our children. How kind and good you would be, Sir, if
Providence should place a human being under you as his owner, for the
mutual good of both of you."
"Dear me," said he, "I should try to feel and act just as I suppose
those Southerners do who, you say, are fairly represented by this lady's
letter about the slave-babe."
"Mr. North," said I, "suppose that the State should make you the
absolute owner of some of those boys who set fire to the Westboro' and
Deer Island institutions. In consideration of your personal
responsibility for them, there is ceded to you all right and title to
their services, and absolute control over them, subject, of course, to
the laws against misdemeanors and crimes against the person. My only
point is this: Where would be the sinfulness of that relation? All that
would be sinful about it would be in your neglect or violation of your
duty as a master.
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