Take their miseries,
vices, crimes, with all the blessings of freedom and everything else.
Get the proportion of evil to the good. Remember that these classes will
continue to exist among us. Then take the slaves, the lower order at the
South, as foreigners are with us, and say if, on the whole, the
proportion of evil among the slaves is any greater than among the
corresponding classes elsewhere. Do not be an optimist. Acknowledge that
society, in this fallen world, must have elements of evil, by reason at
least of imbecility, want of thrift, misfortune, and other things. You
will not fail to see that slavery with all its evils is, under the
circumstances, by no means, the worst possible condition for the colored
people."
"Well," said he, "I will think of all you have said. I do not wish to be
an ultraist, nor to shut my eyes against truth. You will wish to go to
bed; there are some further points on which I would know your views, and
we will, if you please, resume the subject to-morrow."
CHAPTER VII.
OWNERSHIP IN MAN.--THE OLD TESTAMENT SLAVERY.
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do
ye even so to them; FOR THIS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
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