Two of them would have helped John
Brown, no doubt, had he come here, and they might have gained a Bunker
Hill name, at the North, in an insurrection here, as champions of
liberty.'
"This led to some remarks about the great economy which there is in the
Southern mode of administering discipline and correction on the spot,
and at once, instead of filling jails and houses of correction with
felons. But to dwell on this would lead me too far into a new branch of
our subject.
"This planter asked the young lady, the school-teacher, if tare and tret
were in her arithmetic? Upon her saying 'yes, in the older books,' he
told her that there was, seemingly, a good deal of tare and tret in
God's providence, when accomplishing his great purposes; and that to fix
the mind inordinately on evils and miseries incident to a great system
and forgetting the main design, was like a man of business being so
absorbed by the deductions and waste in a great staple as to forego the
trade. He said that he thought the Northern mind ciphered too much in
that part of moral arithmetic as to slavery.
"A very excellent gentleman from the District of Columbia who had held
an important office under government, gave us some valuable information.
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