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Show JG8 NOTES ON her calling it "the fairest picture of our Southern brother." \Vhat ! 1'/tey the best men among the slaveholders whe believe in their conscience that it is wrong to holtl slaves, and yet continue to hold them? So, strange to sny, J\lrs. Stowe teaches : '' Such men," she t ells us, "arc shocked to find their spiritual tc:1chcrs less conscientious than themschcs;" that is to sny, those " spirii ual teach er~" (antl, of course, 1 those of thrir flock who think nn<l oct with them,) who believe in their consciences that it is right to holil slaves, nnd who act up to that belief, arc, in l\lrs. Stowe's opinion, le~s conscientious th:ln the succring antl scofling St. Clare's, who, believing that it i:i wron{! to hold sla\'es, llo, nen•rthclcsR, deliberately and R/}Stcmatiealllf, \·iolatc tiH:ir conseienccs by continuinrr to IFJid thr111! 'J.,hi::; is the mcnning of Mrs. Stowe's lc~mguagc : I defy Iter, or anybotly else, to make anyt.l1ing else out of it.-.\ queer conscientiousness, reader, t.]Ji~, of :Mrs. Stowe's, isn't it? "'Vhat a sorrowful thing it i::; that such men live a.n inglorious life, drawn along by the general current of society, when they ought to be its rcgrnera.tors !" Its regenerators? No ! ~Irs. Stowe! The regenera tors of society arc made of sterner stun· : they nrc men of conscience, who, if you can convince t.hcm th~t they arc in tho wrong, will at once set about righting that wrong: men of ncn'c, however, who will n ot be led away, by their sympathy with particular instances of hardship, to save here and there an individnal at the expense of ruin to the racr, an(l thus turn a sporadic disease into an epidemic; men whose motto is, "Slow and sure ;" who go ~s fast :111'1 as far as they can sec their way clear, and n') faster and no farther. Such men nrc the hope of humanity, and when a uri where tlwy go, society must pc1jorce go with tJ10m. There ~rc plcuty of such men a t the Sctuth; they ]mow what thC'y arc nbout, and thC'y nrc not to be turned aside from it by fal.sc issues : "in quietness nnd io U~C LL·: 'J:O.'!t 'b C A UlN. 16D c?nfitlencc" they arc regenerating the negro and helping on lus fi.nal rcdcm~tion. 'rhcy arc " doing a great work," stcad•ly, but noJselessly, as did the builders of the temple at J erusalem. They arc not of the J ehu's of society, who boast and bluster and brag : they have no confidence in such boasting and blustering and bragging ; they know that it is at the expense of the interests of humanity, and these interests in their estimation outweigh everything earthly. God speed them in their work of love! God speed those N ortherrt men, too, who arc with them in heart and soul ! TheyaJ·e of the noblest of the sons of the North. Strong in the m•ght of truth, they can afford to be taunted and sneered at by such men as John Randolph and " Mr. Mitchcll,"mcn who, by their own confession, are deliberately and systema.tica.lly violating their own consciences, and who, therefore, If they had a particle of modesty, would be n.shamed to set themselves up as censors of the morals of others. May God give them " r epentance and a better mind!" 11herc is one otl10r thing requiring notice in the cha.pter ~efor.e us, and t~n.t is" the " kind of preaching" and the . sm;:ptural .expositiOns that St. Clare says "don't edify h1m. Of th1s we have two specimens, one from tlie Rev. Mr. Clapp, and to this I must take two exceptions ; the first, as a matter of taste, to the epithet " fascinating," which, as here employed, seems to me to belittle the subject the second, as a matter of substance, to the word "every'' j~ the fou:th sentence : I would not sny "to every slaNe in th Umbcd States" what Mr. Clapp says lte would, but I woul~ say It to the slaves as a body-to nincty·nine out of every hundred of them. With these two qualifications, I endorse every word of the extract, and if Mrs. Stowe objects to the s~ntiment of the first three sentences, (as it would seem that snP. does, from her ealling the pnragra.ph a "specimen of 22 p |