No one
from the continent of Europe would infer from those meetings that such
beings as Kate and her little babe, and this lady and her husband and
father, existed even in fiction, but that slave-holders are Legrees, and
the slaves their victims. What a beautiful effect it would have on us
and on the South, if touching tales of loving-kindness between masters
and slaves, instances of perfect happiness in that relation, should be
cited, and then you should enter your candid, but decided opposition to
the system, to its extension, to its evils where it exists. How soon we
should all be found working together, so far as we might, for the
amelioration of the colored race here, with a view to the extinction of
slavery in every form of it in which it is an evil, or a greater evil
than anything which might properly be substituted."
"Well," said Mrs. North, "husband, what do you say to that?"
"I like it," said he.
"But now," said I, "the language of the place of despair is exhausted in
describing and denouncing the South. If a man among us lifts up his
voice to say good things about Southerners, one universal hiss goes up
from all your conventions and anti-slavery prints.
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