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Show 170 NO'l'E:S'ON etltics,") she has yet to learn "which be the first principle:; of the omclcs of God." The other extract is from the Rev. 'Mr. Smylie, and if by the first paragraph he means to imply merely that it is not the " legitimate tendency of the gospel" to make man free, outwardly and inwardly if possible, but, at any 1·ate, out~ wardly, which,. I suppose is his meaning, then I go with him; but if he means to imply (which I cannot for a moment believe) that it is not the "legitimate tendency of the gospel" to rnnke man free with an inward, and thereby, eventually, with an outward freedom, then I want words to express my utter dissent from his doctrine; for I hold most undoubtingly that it is the legitimate tendency-the very end and aim of Christianity to make man free inwardly, and that where a race ha.s become thus free, it cannot longer be continued in slavery by a Christian people.* And when the colored race in this country shall become -thus free, if I live to see the day, (which I do not anticipate, for I believe it is a long way off,) I will preach nothing but abolition to the Southern people, or rather, I shall have no need to preach it to them, for they will enter into it spontaneously, and by acclamation. ~'he tenth chapter is entitled "Legree," and the author discusses in it, amongst other things, the possibility of the character : I shall l1ave something to say upon that before I get through, but at present I will take it for gmntcd. Here follow a few extracts :- "Legree is introduced not for the sake of viliCying masters as a class, but for the sake of bringing to the minUs of honorable Southern men, who nrc masters, a very important feature in tho system of slavery, upon which, perhaps, they * rl'l10 horror of "White SJn.,·ery in the Barbary States" is, that it subjects a people internally free, like St. Vincent do Pa.ul, to:\ people internally slaves. U N C J, I·: T 0 l\1 ' S C -~ n I N. 171 have never reflected. It is this: tha.t no Soutlw,·n law 1·equires any test of crr,\RACTER from tlte man to 'wlwrn the absolute power of master is granted. 1: * * * "Now it is respectfully submitted to men of this high class, who arc the law-makers, whether this awful power to bind and to loose, to open and to shut the kingdom of heaven, ought to be intrusted to every mu.n in the community, without any other qualification than that of property to buy. * * * * * .. "Now, in all the theory of government as it is managed in our country, just in proportion to the extent of power is the strictness with which qualification for tho proper exercise of it is demanded. The physician may not meddle with tho body, to prescribe for its ailments, without a certificate that he is properly qualified. ~'he judge may nof' decide on the laws which relate to property, without a long course of training, and most abundant prepnration. It is only this office of MASTER, which contains the power to bind and to ~oose, and to open and shut the kingdom of heaven, and ~nvoln!l! responsibility for the soul as well as the body, that IS thrown out to every hand, and committed without inquiry to any man of any character. * * "Arc there such men as Legree? Let ~my one go into the low districts and dens of New York, lot them go into some of the lanes and alleys of London, and will they not there sec many Legrees? Nay, take the purest district of New England, and let people cast about in their memory and s~e if there ha YO not been men there, hard, coarse, unfeeling, brutal, who, if they had possessed the absolute p_ower of Legree, wou_ld have used it in the same wa.y; and that there should be Lcgrces in the Southern States, is only saymg that human nature is the same there that it is every |