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It was this conjunction of influences, linking the slave-holder's jealousy and pride to a false but natural conception of state sovereignty, which created in southern men that love of State, intense and sincere as real patriotism, causing them to look upon northern men, with their different theory, as foes and foreigners.
In the spirit of Hume's argument against the miracles of the Bible, I feel disposed, almost, to urge that it would be a greater miracle that the course of nature at the South in a slave-holder's heart should thus be set aside than that there should not be, in some way, deception about this letter.
"What!" said Clayton; "hesitate to do a little thing like this, after the free opinions you have expressed?" There was a long, awkward pause. The Quaker arose, and, looking well at Judge Custis, said: "None but Almighty God knows the secrets of a slave-holder's mind. No son of Adam is fit to be absolute over any human creature." "Amen!" Judge Custis said, meekly.
It is besides a part of the slave-holder's creed, that it is for his interest to treat with terrible severity, all runaways and the incorrigibly stubborn, thievish, lazy, &c.; also for those who hire slaves, to overwork them; also for overseers to overwork the slaves under them, when their own wages are increased by it.
The slave-holder's position, however unjust by an absolute standard, and with great possibilities of abuse, was, in the case of the rightly-disposed man and such were common a position which had its grave duties and often onerous burdens to be conscientiously borne. Hardly was the war ended when the country's needs summoned Washington again to long and arduous service.
The subject had become part of the social converse of the fireside, and had enlisted the best brain and heart of the country. Anti-slavery discussions were pervading the strongest literature and claiming, a place on the most popular platforms. Iola, being a Southern girl and a slave-holder's daughter, always defended slavery when it was under discussion.
Oh, my very soul is grieved to find a Northern woman 'thus sewing pillows under all arm-holes, framing and fitting soft excuses for the slave-holder's conscience, whilst with the same pen she is professing to regard slavery as a sin. 'An open enemy is better than such a secret friend. "Hoping that thou mayst soon be emancipated from such inconsistency, I remain until then,
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