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Show 10 solves those ties of conjugal fidelity by which the dearest relations of life are maintained. If it be so, it is a grievous offence, and sorrow and shame be on the nefarious agent in that scene of depravity. But it would seem that the negro's hut is not the only one that may be exposed to the licentiousness not indeed of lust but of slander. In the passage above quoted the charge is so general that no one may consider himself exempted. It is not made against the obscure, the low, the ignorant, the vulgar. It attaches to whatever in that country is deemed to be noble, elegant, refined, dignified or accomplished. It is the slave's master-the planter's family -the home of the opulent- the educated, the distinguished ; the bed of the chivalrous, the high-minded, the eminent in the council or the fi eld that is said to be desecrated by unfaithfulness. Their wives and daughters by their own impurity satiate the slave's revenge for the ignominy which in the common course of events taints his domestic joys ! ! A writer, so proverbially accurate as our author, can claim no indulgence for the ardor of composition. Thus the passage reads without discrimination, or exception for age, rank, station, or sex. It is not necessary to multiply extracts, to impress on the reader the force of the remark, that such statements, addressed to our own people, are calculated to produce an excitement more extravagant and uncontrolable than has yet appeared ; and, addressed to the slave-holders, have the inevitable tendency to call up an angry state of mind, wholly inimical to any useful results. On their part, they will complain, not of injury, but of insult. They will not be satisfied with the limitations here and there interspersed, in the course of our author 's remarks, because the evils of Slavery, as he describes them, are treated as inseparable from its existence, and attach, in a great degree, to all slave-holders. The sin is on them all. The wrong, the injustice, the oppression is practised by all ; and the retaliation and revenge, " by the terrible connex- 11 1on of crimes," falls upon all. The indignation, which it call ed up in the North by this mode of disc uss ion, is and must be directed to all. \V e know the fiery character of the slaveholders. Dr. C. describes it strongly: "A quiclt resentment of whatever is thought to encroach on personal dignity -vehemence of the vindictive passions-and contempt of all laws, human and divine, in retaliating injury ; these take rank among the virtues of men, whose self-estimation has been fed by the po3session of absolute power." \Vith such views of their temperament, it is surprising he should deem his mode of attack calculated to accomplish the professed object of his book. It is pouring oil on a conflagration. CHAPTER II. The continuance or removal of Slavery is solely within the power of the domestic legislation of the States in which it exists. On this point, I do not find that our author differs from the common sentiment of his fellow-citizens ; though, indeed I could have wished to see the political duty of the Northern States a little more distinctly affirmed. H e does, however, declare that the question, " how Slavery shall be removed, is a question for the slave-holder, and one which he alone can fully answer;" and that, " we have no right of interference, nor do we desire it." Upon this, l remark that there is in the book a singular discrepancy between the means and the end, and a direct assumption of the right which is disclaimed. The means proposed are moral influences. To have any effect, they must find their way into the mind and heart of the slave-holder. The end, which we call Abolition, the slaveholders consider a request to give up, waste, annihilate, what |