' One sits by him
who knows full as much on this and on all subjects as he, who feels that
the people at the South are perfectly qualified to manage this subject,
and that we have no need to interpose. He thinks that if one wishes to
be excited with compassion at the sorrows and woes of men, a short walk
will bring him to certain abodes such as no Southern slave would be
allowed by any human master to inhabit. If he would benefit men as a
class, our own sailors need all his philanthropy. But the good
anti-slavery brother is possessed with the idea that the Southern slave
is the impersonation of injustice and misery, and that those who stand
in the relation of masters are guilty of crimes, daily, which ought to
shut them out of the Church.
"I have often thought that the most appropriate prayers in our public
assemblies, with regard to slavery, would be petitions against Northern
ignorance and passion with respect to Southern Christians. It is we who
most need to be prayed for. When I think of those assemblies of
Christians of all denominations in the South, with a clergy at their
head who have no superiors in the world, and then hear a Northern
preacher indicting them before God in his prayers, what shall I say? The
verdict of a coroner's inquest, if it were held over some of his hearers
at such a time, might almost be, Died of disgust.
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